Convert DataSet to List

Question

Here is my c# code

Employee objEmp = new Employee();
List empList = new List();
foreach (DataRow dr in ds.Tables[0].Rows)
{
          


        

Answer 1

Fill the dataset with data from, say a stored proc command

DbDataAdapter adapter = DbProviderFactories.GetFactory(cmd.Connection).CreateDataAdapter();
adapter.SelectCommand = cmd;
DataSet ds = new DataSet();
adapter.Fill(ds);

Get The Schema,

string s = ds.GetXmlSchema();

save it to a file say: datasetSchema.xsd. Generate the C# classes for the Schema: (at the VS Command Prompt)

xsd datasetSchema.xsd /c

Now, when you need to convert the DataSet data to classes you can deserialize (the default name given to the generated root class is NewDataSet):

public static T Create(string xml)
{
    XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
    using (StringReader reader = new StringReader(xml))
    {
        T t = (T)serializer.Deserialize(reader);

        reader.Close();
        return t;
    }
}

var xml = ds.GetXml();
var dataSetObjects = Create(xml);