Question

I have a data table which I was to split as multiple datatables. The structure inside the datatable has three columns

Company Name. Emp Name and Phone

I want to split the whole datatable into multiple datatables each containing all the employees from one company. I hope I am making sense here with my question. I understood linq is the best way to go about doing this, but I have never used linq before and have completely no idea of how to go about doing this.
Can some one give me a lead on how to go about this? Some code example would be highly appreciated.

Thank you

Answer 1

You can get your company names and data tables as dictionary using this:

Dim dict = dataTable.AsEnumerable().GroupBy(Function(r) r.Field(Of String)("CompanyName")).ToDictionary(Function(g) g.Key, Function(g) CopyToDataTable)