How to read a CSV file into a .NET Datatable

Question

How can I load a CSV file into a System.Data.DataTable, creating the datatable based on the CSV file?

Does the regular ADO.net functionality allow this?

Answer 1

Modified from Mr ChuckBevitt

Working solution:

string CSVFilePathName = APP_PATH + "Facilities.csv";
string[] Lines = File.ReadAllLines(CSVFilePathName);
string[] Fields;
Fields = Lines[0].Split(new char[] { ',' });
int Cols = Fields.GetLength(0);
DataTable dt = new DataTable();
//1st row must be column names; force lower case to ensure matching later on.
for (int i = 0; i < Cols-1; i++)
        dt.Columns.Add(Fields[i].ToLower(), typeof(string));
DataRow Row;
for (int i = 0; i < Lines.GetLength(0)-1; i++)
{
        Fields = Lines[i].Split(new char[] { ',' });
        Row = dt.NewRow();
        for (int f = 0; f < Cols-1; f++)
                Row[f] = Fields[f];
        dt.Rows.Add(Row);
}