C# DataRow Empty-check

Question

I got this:

 DataTable dtEntity = CreateDataTable();
 drEntity = dtEntity.NewRow();

Then I add data to the row (or not). Lots of code, real

Answer 1

A simple method along the lines of:

bool AreAllColumnsEmpty(DataRow dr)
{
 if (dr == null)
 {
  return true;
 }
 else
 {
  foreach(var value in dr.ItemArray)
  {
    if (value != null)
    {
      return false;
    }
  }
  return true;
 }
}

Should give you what you're after, and to make it "nice" (as there's nothing as far as I'm aware, in the Framework), you could wrap it up as an extension method, and then your resultant code would be:

if (datarow.AreAllColumnsEmpty())
{
}
else
{
}