DataTable to List<object>

Question

How do I take a DataTable and convert it to a List?

I\'ve included some code below in both C# and VB.NET, the issue with both of these is that we create a new object

Answer 1

No sure if this is what your looking for but you could try something like this.

    public class Category
{
    private int _Id;
    public int Id
    {
        get { return _Id; }
        set { _Id = value; }
    }

    private string _Name = null;
    public string Name
    {
        get { return _Name; }
        set { _Name = value; }
    }

    public Category()
    {}

    public static List GetCategories()
    {
        List currentCategories = new List();

        DbCommand comm = GenericDataAccess.CreateTextCommand();
        comm.CommandText = "SELECT Id, Name FROM Categories Order By Name";
        DataTable table = GenericDataAccess.ExecuteSelectCommand(comm);

        foreach (DataRow row in table.Rows)
        {
            Category cat = new Category();
            cat.Id = int.Parse(row["Id"].ToString());
            cat.Name = row["Name"].ToString();
            currentCategories.Add(cat);
        }
        return currentCategories;
    }
}

This is what I have done so hope this helps. Not sure if it is the right way to do it but it works for what we needed it for.