Client datasets are specialized datasets that hold all the data in memory. They use a provider to supply them with data and apply updates when they cache updates from a database server or another dataset, represent the data in an XML document, and store the data in the client portion of a multi-tiered application.

1. Choose FileNewOther. The New Items dialog appears.
2. In the New Items dialog, select Delphi Projects and double-click VCL Forms Application. The Windows Designer displays.
3. From the DataSnap category of the Tool Palette, drag a TConnectionBroker component to the form if the provider is on a remote application server.
4. In the Object Inspector, set the ConnectionBroker property of your client dataset to the TConnectionBroker component to the form.
5. From the DataSnap category of the Tool Palette, drag a TLocalConnection component to the form if the provider is in the same application as the client dataset.
6. Set the RemoteServer property of your client dataset to the TLocalConnection component to the form.