Question

Basically I have a data set with some data a data base table, I want to pass the data to a dictionary, what could be a good way yo accomplish my goal. Assuming that the dictionary have this structure

Dictionary<int,string>

I’m looking for some method to bind the rows of the dataset with the key and value of the dictionary.

Answer 1

Your question is pretty vague, if your dataset implements IEnumerable or IQueryable you can use the ToDictionary extension method:

Dictionary<int, string> dict = data.ToDictionary(e => e.id, e => e.name);