Min (n) must be less than or equal to max (-1) in a Range object.

This happened to me when I would read an XML file into a Dataset, as follows:

string sort = "";
string where = string.Format("userID={0}", EmployeeID);
DataSet ds = new DataSet();
ds.ReadXml(XMLFilename);
DataRow[] rows = ds.Tables[0].Select(where, sort, DataViewRowState.CurrentRows);
The userID column is numeric, yet I found that I could make this error dissappear by single-quoting the parameter like this.

string where = string.Format("userID='{0}'", EmployeeID);

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