Question

I have a gridview that i want to fill with data from my linq to sql file.

I tried to create a function to fill a gridview with a string that its the table name.

InformitoDataContext db = new InformitoDataContext();

    public void FillGridView(string Table, Control GridView) 
    {
        var ds = from q
              in db.Table //Error in db.Table: 'InformitoDataContext' does not contain a definition for 'Table'
                select q;
        (GridView as GridView).DataSource = ds;
        (GridView as GridView).DataBind();
    }

And it should be working like this:

 public void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Data.FillGridView("news", GridView1);
}

How can i solve this issue?

Answer 1

You may try using reflexion:

public void FillGridView(string Table, Control GridView) 
{
    var property = typeof(InformitoDataContext).GetProperty(Table);
    IQueryable query = (IQueryable)(property.GetGetMethod().Invoke(db, new object[0]));
    (GridView as GridView).DataSource = query;
    (GridView as GridView).DataBind();
}

But this is not something I would recommend… you are linking objects to strings though linq to SQL is doing the exact contrary…

Well… I did not test the code, it may not compile… this is just to get the idea