An "An unhandled exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' occurred" error message occurs if the DataTable name or DataRelation name includes a period (314043)

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Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Start Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.
2. Create a new Windows Application project in Visual Basic .NET. By default, Form1 is added to the project.
3. Make sure that your project contains a reference to the System.Data namespace.
4. Place one Button control and one DataGrid control on Form1.
5. Change the Name property of the button to btnTest, and then change the Text property to Test.
6. Use the Imports statement on the System, the System.Data, and the System.Data.SqlClient namespaces so that you are not required to qualify declarations in those namespaces later in your code. Add the following code to the "General Declarations" section of Form1:

   Imports System
   Imports System.Data.OleDb
   Imports System.Data.SqlClient
   					

7. Add the following code to the Code window after the "Windows Form Designer generated code" region:

       Private Sub btnTest_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
       ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnTest.Click
           Dim myConnString As String = _
                   "User ID=sa;password=sa;Initial Catalog=Northwind;Data Source=myServer"
           Dim ds As New DataSet()
           Dim con As New SqlConnection(myConnString)
           Dim daCust As New SqlDataAdapter("Select * From Customers", con)
           daCust.Fill(ds, "Cust.Details")
           DataGrid1.DataSource = ds
           DataGrid1.DataMember = "Cust.Details"
       End Sub
   					

8. Modify the connection string (myConnString) as appropriate for your environment.
9. Save your project. On the Debug menu, click Start to run your project.
10. Click Test. Notice that DataGrid1.DataMember fails with the above-mentioned exception.