Populating a SelectList from a DataTable

Question

I ran a query and returned a datatable,

myDataAdapter.Fill(myDataTable);

Now what is the best way to load the row values \"Value\" and \"Te

Answer 1

Here is what I came up with it seems to work well, But I was wondering if this is the best way.

First I created an object that looks like my results form my query,

public class MyTestObj
{
    public string Value_CD { get; set; }
    public string Text_NA { get; set; }
}

Then I create a ILIST and populate it with the datatable rows

IList MyList = new List();
foreach (DataRow mydataRow in myDataTable.Rows)
{
  MyList.Add(new MyTestObj()
  {
    Value_CD = mydataRow["Value"].ToString().Trim(),
    Text_NA  = mydataRow["Text"].ToString().Trim()                      
  });
}

return new SelectList(MyList, "Value_CD", "Text_NA");

Any comments on this approach?