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Friday, 20 January 2012

Convert your datatable to Collection of Generic List using Reflection

First you need to add the reference of the dll, "System.Reflection".

Then I have created a static function in my class that will convert my datatable to a generic list:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Data;
using BusinessEntity;

namespace DataLayer.Entitymapper
{
    public static class EntityBinder
    {
        public static List<T> ToCollection<T>(this DataTable dt)
        {
            List<T> lst = new System.Collections.Generic.List<T>();
            Type tClass = typeof(T);
            PropertyInfo[] pClass = tClass.GetProperties();
            List<DataColumn> dc = dt.Columns.Cast<DataColumn>().ToList();
            T cn;
            foreach (DataRow item in dt.Rows)
            {
                cn = (T)Activator.CreateInstance(tClass);
                foreach (PropertyInfo pc in pClass)
                {
                 
                   DataColumn d = dc.Find(c => c.ColumnName == pc.Name);
                   if (d != null)
                   {
                       if (item[pc.Name] != DBNull.Value)
                       {
                           pc.SetValue(cn, (item[pc.Name]), null);
                       }
                   }  
                }
                lst.Add(cn);
            }
            return lst;
        }
    }
}


How to call: In my DataLayer Project I have created a class ResourceDAL.

Now i will create a function where i will pass the datatable and EntityBinder class ToCollection method will convert it into generic list of resources.

public List<ResourceBE> GetResource()
        {
             try
             {
                 DataSet DS = SqlHelper.ExecuteDataset(RTSSqlConnection.GetConnectionString, CommandType.StoredProcedure, "usp_GetResources");
                 DataTable dt = DS.Tables[0];

                 //return dt;
                 List<ResourceBE> listResource = EntityBinder.ToCollection<ResourceBE>(dt);
                 return listResource;
             }
            catch(Exception ex)
            {
                throw new Exception(ex.ToString());
            }
        }

So this function will return now a list of resources......

Happy learning............................:)












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