Get the column names of a table and store them in a string or var c# asp.net

Question

I was wondering how I could get the columns of a database table and store each of them in a string or string array. I have the following code but I believe it does not work.

Answer 1

I will show you how to do it with MySQL database table. Similar code structure can be used for your case as well. Basically you should run "DESC table_name" query. Then you have a table description as a resulting table. You can read dataReader and retrieve whatever information filed from the Table Description. In this example I retrieve column names of the specific DB table. Hope this will save someones time. :) Happy coding!

 var tableDesc = "DESC table_name";

        try
        {
            Mclient.MySqlCommand tableDescCmd = new Mclient.MySqlCommand(tableDesc, mCon);
            Mclient.MySqlDataReader tableDescDR = tableDescCmd.ExecuteReader();

            while (tableDescDR.Read())
            {

                searchFields.Items.Add(tableDescDR.GetFieldValue(tableDescDR.GetOrdinal("Field")));
            }

            tableDescDR.Close();
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            MessageBox.Show("Could not retrieve DB Table fields.\n" + ex.Message);
        }