Question

I have populated a DataTable from a stored procedure in an older web application written in

C# under .NET 2.0 / Visual Studio 2005.

I’m trying to populate a List with the values in the DataTable, but I keep running up against a couple issues.

My conversion process looks like this:

List<int> SpecialVendorList = new List<int>();

foreach (DataRow datarow in GetAllSpecialVendors().Rows)
{
//Loop through each row
foreach (DataColumn column in GetAllSpecialVendors().Columns)
   {
       SpecialVendorList.Add(column["ChildVendorId"]);
       SpecialVendorList.Add(column["ParentVendorId"]);
   }
}

which gives me the following error:

Can not apply indexing with [] to an expression of type 'System.Data.DataColumn'

for each of the SpecialVendorList.Add() methods.

Answer 1

Seems like you’re trying to get column values for each row. You only the first foreach loop:

List<int> SpecialVendorList = new List<int>();

try
{
    foreach (DataRow datarow in GetAllSpecialVendors().Rows)
    {
        //Loop through each row
       SpecialVendorList.Add(Convert.ToInt32(datarow["ChildVendorId"]));
       SpecialVendorList.Add(Convert.ToInt32(datarow["ParentVendorId"]));
    }
}
catch(FormatException fe)
{
    //handle the error
}

The string index here will get that column’s value in that specific row