/// <summary>
/// getAuthorsAsTable ; get a data table of the author keys and names
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// This uses the UniXML utility class to return an enquiry command as a data table
/// for easy data binding.
/// </remarks>
/// <param name="authors"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public Boolean getAuthorsAsTable(ref DataTable authors)
{
try {
lock (_syncCall) {
UniXML ux = _sess.CreateUniXML();
String cmd = BookConst.SEL_AUTHORS_QUERY;
ux.GenerateXML(cmd);
DataSet ds = ux.GetDataSet();
authors = ds.Tables[0];
}
} catch (Exception ex) {
ShowError(ex.Message);
return(false);
}
return(true);
}