I see many posts about converting the table(s) in a DataSet to a list of DataRows or other row data but I was unable to find anything about this question. This is what I came up with using in .Net 3.0: internal static List<DataTable> DataSetToList(DataSet ds) { List<DataTable> result = new List<DataTable>(); foreach (DataTable dtbl in ds.Tables) { result.Add(dtbl); } return result; } Is there a better way, excluding an extension method? Thanks