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

you can use SqlCommands executeScalar function. Please look at the following link

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.sqlclient.sqlcommand.executescalar.aspx