Read a Delphi TClientDataset Files with .NET

Question

I need to read Files that are written with the TClientDataset class from Delphi with .NET Code. The Solution mentioned here does not work for me.

Answer 1

actually original cds binary format IS documented quite extensively in corresponding US patent filed by Hejlsberg/Hansen. I must admit that later borland extended it with few extra features (such as nested datasets support) but basically it is still the very same format and with little digging in midas sources (they released it back in d2010) one can build his own parser as I did