Author: jaymdouglas | Posted on: 6/3/2008 8:42:11 AM | Views : 663

I am trying to find the best solution in order to pull data (read only) from an external file as data values/names. 

For example, I want to have status types in a file:  CUPE = 2, ONA = 4, NonUnion = 6, NoBenefit = 8, NotSet = -1, ( as an example) and not in a table in the DB.  And have the application read from the DB and pull the value and then populate the correct NAME for the fied - hope this is clear.

I don't want to create a DataType table and have these stored there simply because I am going to have several of these.  Can someone point me in the right direction whether its an XML file, CS file, txt file etc - HELP.

 
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