Reading int values from SqlDataReader

Question

hi can anyone please help me with this fetching from database of int values im having difficulty in fetching int values , it works for varchar but not int can someone help me ou

Answer 1

based on Sam Holder's answer, you could make an extension method for that

namespace adonet.extensions
{
  public static class AdonetExt
  {
    public static int GetInt32(this SqlDataReader reader, string columnName)
    {
      return reader.GetInt32(reader.GetOrdinal(columnName));
    }
  }
}

and use it like this

using adonet.extensions;

//...

int farmsize = reader.GetInt32("farmsize");

assuming there is no GetInt32(string) already in SqlDataReader - if there is any, just use some other method name instead