DataColumn Name from DataRow (not DataTable)

Question

I need to iterate the columnname and column datatype from a specific row. All of the examples I have seen have iterated an entire datatable. I want to pass a single row to a

Answer 1

You can make it easier in your code (if you're doing this a lot anyway) by using an extension on the DataRow object, like:

static class Extensions
{
    public static string GetColumn(this DataRow Row, int Ordinal)
    {
        return Row.Table.Columns[Ordinal].ColumnName;
    }
}

Then call it using:

string MyColumnName = MyRow.GetColumn(5);