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Convert a LINQ Query Resultset to a DataTable

After a long struggle I find out the way to convert a Linq Query resultset to DataTable object. The attached source code shows how to do it.

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After a long struggle I find out the way to convert  a Linq Query resultset to DataTable object. The attached source code shows how to do it. I am sharing this article with my developer friends and make their life easier.

Here are two samples.

Sample I:

I created a public method called LINQToDataTable as following:

public DataTable LINQToDataTable<T>(IEnumerable<T> varlist)
{
     DataTable dtReturn = new DataTable();

     // column names 
     PropertyInfo[] oProps = null;

     if (varlist == null) return dtReturn;

     foreach (T rec in varlist)
     {
          // Use reflection to get property names, to create table, Only first time, others 
          will follow 
          if (oProps == null)
          {
               oProps = ((
Type)rec.GetType()).GetProperties();
               foreach (PropertyInfo pi in oProps)
               {
                    Type colType = pi.PropertyType;

                    if ((colType.IsGenericType) && (colType.GetGenericTypeDefinition()      
                    ==typeof(Nullable<>)))
                     {
                         colType = colType.GetGenericArguments()[0];
                     }

                    dtReturn.Columns.Add(
new DataColumn(pi.Name, colType));
               }
          }

          DataRow dr = dtReturn.NewRow();

          foreach (PropertyInfo pi in oProps)
          {
               dr[pi.Name] = pi.GetValue(rec,
null) == null ?DBNull.Value :pi.GetValue
               (rec,null);
          }

          dtReturn.Rows.Add(dr);
     }
     return dtReturn;
}

---------------------------------------------------------------

Example: To use this method, just use the following code sample:

---------------------------------------------------------------

var vrCountry = from country in objEmpDataContext.CountryMaster
                        select new {country.CountryID,country.CountryName};

DataTable dt = LINQToDataTable(vrCountry);

Sample II

Here is my second method:

public DataTable ToDataTable(System.Data.Linq.DataContext ctx, object query)
{
     if (query == null)
     {
          throw new ArgumentNullException("query");
     }
     
    
IDbCommand
cmd = ctx.GetCommand(query as IQueryable);
     SqlDataAdapter adapter = new SqlDataAdapter();
     adapter.SelectCommand = (
SqlCommand)cmd;
     DataTable dt = new DataTable("sd");

     try
     {
          cmd.Connection.Open();
          adapter.FillSchema(dt,
SchemaType.Source); 
          adapter.Fill(dt);
     }
     finally
     {
          cmd.Connection.Close();
     }
     return dt;
}

---------------------------------------------------------------

Example: To use this method, just use the following code sample:

---------------------------------------------------------------

var vrCountry = from country in objEmpDataContext.CountryMaster
                        select new {country.CountryID,country.CountryName};

DataTable dt = LINQToDataTable(objEmpDataContext,vrCountry);


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You'd better do more search before you write code and publish article. by Vincent On October 7, 2008
The Linq2Dataset dll extension has already been included in net framework 3.5, I can't see why you need to create something to convert linq result to DataTable
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Re: You'd better do more search before you write code and publish article. by Bita On May 31, 2009

is anything in .net framework 3.5 that convert query2sql resultset to dataset?!
could you tell how we could do that?

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This could also work by Dimple On January 5, 2009
public DataTable SqlLinqToDataTable(DataContext context, IQueryable queryResult) { DataTable table = new DataTable(); SqlCommand cmd = (SqlCommand)context.GetCommand(queryResult); new SqlDataAdapter(cmd).Fill(table); return table; }
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Method for stored procedures (ISingleResult) by Ryan On March 23, 2009
Hi there, Do you have any method where, instead of using IQueryable in sample 2, I can use ISingleResult?
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thx for solution by Bita On May 31, 2009
thank you so much. it is 2 days that i've been searching for a solution which be able to fill a datatable with linq to query resultset.but couldn't find a workable and nice solution.
But don't you think that microsoft should predict and prevent it!!
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Nice! by Vivek On July 6, 2009

Gr8 work... Saved me a lot of time!!

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