Best practice to check if DataRow contains a certain column

Question

At the moment, when I iterate over the DataRow instances, I do this.

foreach(DataRow row in table)
  return yield new Thingy { Name = row[\"hazaa\"]         


        

Answer 1

You can create an extension method to make it cleaner:

static class DataRowExtensions
{
    public static object GetValue(this DataRow row, string column)
    {
        return row.Table.Columns.Contains(column) ? row[column] : null;
    }
}

Now call it like below:

foreach(DataRow row in table)
    return yield new Thingy { Name = row.GetValue("hazaa") };