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

With Cinchoo ETL - an open source library, you can easily convert CSV file to DataTable with few lines of code.

using (var p = new ChoCSVReader(** YOUR CSV FILE **)
     .WithFirstLineHeader()
    )
{
    var dt = p.AsDataTable();
}

For more information, please visit codeproject article.

Hope it helps.