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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Converting objects or arrays of objects to DataTables


using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Reflection.Emit;

namespace ObjToAdo
{
        /// <summary>
        /// Summary description for Converter.
        /// </summary>
        public class Converter
        {
                private Converter()     {}

                /// <summary>
                ///
                /// </summary>
                /// <param name="o"></param>
                /// <returns></returns>
                public static DataTable ConvertToDataTable(Object o)
                {      
                        PropertyInfo[] properties = o.GetType().GetProperties();
                        DataTable dt = CreateDataTable(properties);
                        FillData(properties, dt, o);
                        return dt;
                }

                /// <summary>
                ///
                /// </summary>
                /// <param name="o"></param>
                /// <returns></returns>
                public static DataTable ConvertToDataTable(Object[] array)
                {
                        PropertyInfo[] properties = array.GetType().GetElementType().GetProperties();
                        DataTable dt = CreateDataTable(properties);

                        if (array.Length != 0)
                        {
                                foreach(object o in array)
                                        FillData(properties, dt, o);

                        }

                        return dt;
                }

                /// <summary>
                ///
                /// </summary>
                /// <param name="properties"></param>
                /// <returns></returns>
                private static DataTable CreateDataTable(PropertyInfo[] properties)
                {
                        DataTable dt = new DataTable();
                        DataColumn dc = null;

                        foreach(PropertyInfo pi in properties)
                        {
                                dc = new DataColumn();
                                dc.ColumnName = pi.Name;
                                dc.DataType = pi.PropertyType;
                               
                                dt.Columns.Add(dc);                            
                        }

                        return dt;
                }


                /// <summary>
                ///
                /// </summary>
                /// <param name="properties"></param>
                /// <param name="dt"></param>
                /// <param name="o"></param>
                private static void FillData(PropertyInfo[] properties, DataTable dt, Object o)
                {
                        DataRow dr = dt.NewRow();

                        foreach(PropertyInfo pi in properties)
                                dr[pi.Name] = pi.GetValue(o, null);

                        dt.Rows.Add(dr);       
                }


        }
}

 reference:http://weblogs.asp.net/psperanza/archive/2005/05/18/407389.aspx

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