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Get specific column from DataRow without iteration through every column

Im new to DataSets and I am trying to get a specific column from a DataSet. I wrote this code
using (var dataset = new U2ZFDataSetTableAdapters.stationenTableAdapter())
{
var ds = new U2ZFDataSet();
dataset.Fill(ds.stationen);
var rows = ds.stationen.Select("pdvorhanden = 1");
foreach (DataRow row in rows)
{
foreach (DataColumn column in ds.stationen.Columns)
{
if(column.ColumnName == "Bezeichnung")
listOfStations.Add(row[column].ToString());
}
}
}
The code feels slow to me. Isnt there a better way to do this? How can I get a specific Colum from DataRow without iterating through every column of the row?

Access to the column via column name.
foreach (DataRow row in rows)
{
listOfStations.Add(row["Bezeichnung"].ToString());
}
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/146h6tk5(v=vs.110).aspx

How to add rows and columns into datatable in single loop?

I have Json stored in DataBase which I deserialize into DataTable with the help of Newtonsoft.Json like this
string jsonString = "[myJsonfromDB....]";
//Deserialize to DataTable
DataTable dtSerialized = (DataTable)JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(jsonString, (typeof(DataTable)));
Which gives me result like this other columns in image are not shown
Here my label is Column and value is column value. Both of these columns will be moved to new DataTable which I'll process further for my operations. Now my problem is that I want to do it in one loop while I do it in multiple loops i.e add columns first (in first loop) and then add column values (in second loop). Currently I'm doing it like this
string colName = string.Empty;
// First Loop to add columns
foreach (DataRow dr in dtSerialized.Rows)
{
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Utility.Instance.ToString(dr["label"])))
{
colName = prefix + "_" + Utility.Instance.ToString(dr["label"]).Replace(" ", string.Empty).Replace("/", "_").Replace("-", "_");
if (!dtResult.Columns.Contains(colName))
dtResult.Columns.Add(colName, typeof(string));
}
}
DataRow drSelect = dtResult.NewRow();
//Second loop to add column values
foreach (DataRow dr in dtSerialized.Rows)
{
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Utility.Instance.ToString(dr["label"])))
{
colName = prefix + "_" + Utility.Instance.ToString(dr["label"]).Replace(" ", "").Replace("/", "_").Replace("-", "_");
drSelect[colName] = dr["value"];
}
}
dtResult.Rows.Add(drSelect);
dsResult.Tables.Add(dtResult);
After this I have
As much I know is that first DataRow schema is built from DataTable and then values can be added which is clear in above code. Now, How can i do it in one loop? Or should I search for alternate method which i don't know how to do this.
Thanks in advance

I am guessing I am missing something here. This looks like a transpose function and I cannot think of a way to accomplish this without two loops or transposing the data as you read it in. But going from what is posted it appears the column label holds the new DataTable’s column names. The first column is the first row of data to this new DataTable.
If this is the case then while you are looping through the rows to get the column names from column 1 (label), you can also get the “value’ from column 0 (value) and put this value in a List<string> named valuesList below.
Then after you have looped through all the rows and set the columns in the new DataTable dtResults you can add a single row from the valuesList by setting the list to a string array like below. This will produce the second picture you showed in one loop. Again I am guessing there is more to it than this simple transpose. Since a DataTable does not have a built in transpose function you will have to write your own. Not sure how you would do this in one loop though. Hope this helps.
private DataTable Transpose2ColDT(DataTable dtSource) {
string prefix = "DIAP_";
string colName = "";
DataTable dtResult = new DataTable();
List<string> valuesList = new List<String>();
if (dtSource.Rows.Count > 0) {
foreach (DataRow dr in dtSource.Rows) {
if (!dr.IsNull("Label")) {
if (dr.ItemArray[1].ToString() != "" ) {
colName = prefix + "_" + dr.ItemArray[1].ToString();
if (!dtResult.Columns.Contains(colName)) {
dtResult.Columns.Add(colName, typeof(string));
valuesList.Add(dr.ItemArray[0].ToString());
}
}
}
}
dtResult.Rows.Add(valuesList.ToArray<string>());
} // no rows in the original source
return dtResult;
}

Looping though columns to store in session

So I have a DataTable which uses a "SELECT * FROM People WHERE ID = ?" you can understand that this will only retrieve one row as the ID is unique
I have casted it to a list:
List<DataTable> userInfo = (List<DataTable>)HttpContext.Current.Session["userDT"];
Now I am trying to do a foreach loop that would loop through each row and store the column into a session, this is what I have so far:
However I get an error:
Cannot convert type 'System.Data.DataTable' to 'System.Data.DataRow'
Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

userInfo is a list of tables. You have to iterate through it, and for each table you can access that table's rows:
foreach (DataTable dt in userInfo)
{
foreach (DataColumn column in dt.Columns)
{
// if you want column names here is how you would get them
string columnName = column.ColumnName;
foreach (DataRow row in dt.Rows)
{
// if you want the values in the cells, here's where you get them
object value = row[column];
}
}
}

c# datatable select last row on a speicfic condition

I have a datatable has data like this format
........ IVR........
.........IVR........
.........IVR........
.........City1......
.........City1......
.........City1......
.........City2......
.........City2......
.........City2......
I want to take the last row of each value. in order words, the rows that are bold now
The challenge is that i wan these three rows in a datatable. I tried to search on internet but i didn't know what is the name of this feature. could you help me please

You can GroupBy() and then select last row with the help of the Last() method.
var result = from b in myDataTable.AsEnumerable()
group b by b.Field<string>("Your_Column_Name") into g
select g.Last();
DataTable filtered = myDataTable.Clone();
foreach(DataRow row in result)
{
filtered.ImportRow(row);
}
Clone clones the structure of the DataTable, including all DataTable schemas and constraints.

This can be implemented in a simple loop using a Dictionary to hold found rows:
var cRows = new Dictionary<string, DataRow>(StringComparer.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase);
foreach (DataRow oRow in oTable.Rows)
{
var sKey = oRow["KeyValue"].ToString();
if (!cRows.ContainsKey(sKey))
{
cRows.Add(sKey, oRow);
}
else
{
cRows[sKey] = oRow;
}
}
This approach will store the last row for each unique value in the column that you nominate.
To move the selected rows into a new DataTable:
var oNewTable = oTable.Clone();
foreach (var oRow in cRows.Values)
{
oNewTable.Rows.Add(oRow);
}
Clone just clones the structure of the current table, not the rows.

Delete a specific row from datatable

I am trying to delete a specific row from datatable. When adding the last row, I need to delete the yellow colored rows. It is very easy to Select from a datatable like below
DataRow[] dr = dt.Select("STOK_KODU='HAMMADDE_2'");
I was wondering if there is a way like below to delete ??? Or would you advice an easy way to delete a rows from datatable?
dt.Delete("STOK_KODU='HAMMADDE_2'");

One way is to recreate the table with the rows you want to keep:
dt = dt.AsEnumerable()
.Where(row => row.Field<string>("STOK_KODU") != "HAMMADDE_2")
.CopyToDataTable()
The other is to use DataRowCollection.Remove:
DataRow[] rowsToRemove = dt.Select("STOK_KODU='HAMMADDE_2'");
foreach (var rowToDelete in rowsToRemove)
dt.Rows.Remove(rowToDelete);
The second approach is more efficient if you want to delete few rows and the table is large. The first approach using LINQ is more powerful since you can use any code but it can be less efficient.

You can access the Rows collection of the DataTable:
foreach (var row in dr)
dt.Rows.Remove(row);

try this ::
DataRow[] rows;
rows=dt.Select("STOK_KODU='HAMMADDE_2'");
foreach(DataRow r in rows)
r.Delete();

Deleting rows from an in memory DataTable object is really easy
dt.Select("STOK_KODU='HAMMADDE_2'").AsEnumerable().ToList().ForEach(x => x.Delete());
However you should consider that the Delete method simply marks the RowState to Deleted, but the rows are still in the DataTable.Rows collection. To really remove them you need to call
dt.AcceptChanges();
without this call, if you loop over the datatable rows collection, you need to check the RowState to avoid an error message stating that you cannot access the information of a deleted row
foreach(DataRow r in dt.Rows)
{
if(r.RowState != DataRowState.Deleted)
Console.WriteLine(r[0].ToString());
}