Question

I have a datatable. I need to fetch a certain column value based on the user input. For example, let’s say the datatable has two columns CountryID and CountryName.

I need to find CountryID in the datatable based on the user input country name. I could just open a connection with DB and run the query

select countryID from Country where countryName = @userinput

Is there anyway I could do this on the datatable.

Answer 1

string countryName = "USA";
DataTable dt = new DataTable();
int id = (from DataRow dr in dt.Rows
              where (string)dr["CountryName"] == countryName
              select (int)dr["id"]).FirstOrDefault();