Simple SQL select in C#?

Question

On my current project, to get a single value (select column from table where id=val), the previous programmer goes through using a datarow, datatable and an sqldatadapter (a

Answer 1

Actually, there is a method SqlCommand.ExecuteScalar() that will simply return the first field from the first row of the returned results. Just for you.

.NET Framework Class Library SqlCommand..::.ExecuteScalar Method

Executes the query, and returns the first column of the first row in the result set returned by the query. Additional columns or rows are ignored.