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

Sometimes a column name might exist, but a row does not contain the data for that column; for example, after filling DataTable using ReadXML.

A simple, fast and secure solution would be to use type checking:

if(row["columnname"].GetType() != typeof(System.DBNull)){
    //DataRow contains "columname"
}else{
    //a safe scope to set default cell data
}