Fill an array (or arraylist) from SqlDataReader

Question

Is there a way to fill an array via a SqlDataReader (or any other C# ADO.NET object) without looping through all the items? I have a query that is returning a single column

Answer 1

Apparently, ever since .NET 1.1 SqlDataReader had the following method:

int size;
object[] data = new object[]{};
size = reader.GetValues(data);

This populates data with the values of the current reader row, assigning into size the number of objects that were put into the array.