XSD DataSets and ignoring foreign keys

Question: I have a pretty standard table set-up in a current application using the .NET XSD DataSet and TableAdapter features. My contracts table consists of some standard contract information, with a column for the primary department. This column is a foreign key to my Departments table, where I store the basic department name, id, notes. This is all setup and functioning in my SQL Server.
When I use the XSD tool, I can drag both tables in at once and it auto detects/creates the foreign key I have between these two tables. This works great when I'm on my main page and am viewing contract data.
However, when I go to my administrative page to modify the department data. I typically do something like this:

Dim dtDepartment As New DepartmentDataTable()
Dim taDepartment As New DepartmentTableAdapter()

taDepartment.Fill(dtDepartment)

However, at this point an exception is thrown saying to the effect that there is a foreign key reference broken here, I'm guessing since I don't have the Contract DataTable filled.
How can I fix this problem? I know I can simply remove the foreign key from the XSD to make things work fine, but having the additional integrity check there and having the XSD schema match the SQL schema in the database is nice.

Solution:  You can try turning Check-constraints off on the DataSet (it's in its properties), or altering the properties of that relationship, and change the key to a simple reference - up to you.

Java lib or app to convert CSV to XML file?

Question: Is there an existing application or library in Java which will allow me to convert a CSV data file to XML file?
The XML tags would be provided through possibly the first row containing column headings

Solution:  OpenCsv for parsing CSV (small, simple, reliable and easy to use)
Xstream to parse/serialize XML (very very easy to use, and creating fully human readable xml) Using the same sample data as above, code would look like:

import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import au.com.bytecode.opencsv.CSVReader;

import com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream;

public class CsvToXml {     

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        String startFile = "./startData.csv";
        String outFile = "./outData.xml";

        try {
            CSVReader reader = new CSVReader(new FileReader(startFile));
            String[] line = null;

            String[] header = reader.readNext();

            List out = new ArrayList();

            while((line = reader.readNext())!=null){
                List<String[]> item = new ArrayList<String[]>();
                    for (int i = 0; i < header.length; i++) {
                    String[] keyVal = new String[2];
                    String string = header[i];
                    String val = line[i];
                    keyVal[0] = string;
                    keyVal[1] = val;
                    item.add(keyVal);
                }
                out.add(item);
            }

            XStream xstream = new XStream();

            xstream.toXML(out, new FileWriter(outFile,false));

        } catch (Exception e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Producing the following result: (Xstream allows very fine tuning of the result...)

<list>
  <list>
    <string-array>
      <string>string</string>
      <string>hello world</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>float1</string>
      <string>1.0</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>float2</string>
      <string>3.3</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>integer</string>
      <string>4</string>
    </string-array>
  </list>
  <list>
    <string-array>
      <string>string</string>
      <string>goodbye world</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>float1</string>
      <string>1e9</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>float2</string>
      <string>-3.3</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>integer</string>
      <string>45</string>
    </string-array>
  </list>
  <list>
    <string-array>
      <string>string</string>
      <string>hello again</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>float1</string>
      <string>-1</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>float2</string>
      <string>23.33</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>integer</string>
      <string>456</string>
    </string-array>
  </list>
  <list>
    <string-array>
      <string>string</string>
      <string>hello world 3</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>float1</string>
      <string>1.40</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>float2</string>
      <string>34.83</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>integer</string>
      <string>4999</string>
    </string-array>
  </list>
  <list>
    <string-array>
      <string>string</string>
      <string>hello 2 world</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>float1</string>
      <string>9981.05</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>float2</string>
      <string>43.33</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>integer</string>
      <string>444</string>
    </string-array>
  </list>
</list>

ASP.NET Site Maps

Question: Has anyone got experience creating SQL-based ASP.NET site-map providers?

I've got the default XML file web.sitemap working properly with my Menu and SiteMapPath controls, but I'll need a way for the users of my site to create and modify pages dynamically.
I need to tie page viewing permissions into the standard ASP.NET membership system as well.

Solution:  Here's my fix in BuildSiteMap():

SiteMapNode node = GetSiteMapNodeFromReader(reader);
string url = node.Url;
if (url.Contains(":"))
{
    string garbage = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();  // SiteMapNode needs unique URLs
    node.Url = "~/dummy_" + garbage + ".aspx";
    AddNode(node, _root);
    node.Url = url;
}
else
{
    AddNode(node, _root);
}

SQLDependency caching is cool, but if you don't want to make a trip to the DB everytime your menu loads (to check to see if the dependency has changed) and your menus don't change very often, then why not use HttpRuntime.Cache instead?

public override SiteMapNode RootNode
{
    get
    {
        SiteMapNode temp = (SiteMapNode)HttpRuntime.Cache["SomeKeyName"];
        if (temp == null)
        {
            temp = BuildSiteMap();
            HttpRuntime.Cache.Insert("SomeKeyName", temp, null, DateTime.Now.AddHours(1), Cache.NoSlidingExpiration);
        }
        return temp;
    }
}