Question

I have the following issue. I request you to please post your suggestions.

Problem:
1. I have stored the result of DB operation in a DataTable in a Session variable.
2. Created a new DataTable variable say ‘X’ and assigend the DataTable stored in the Session variable.
3. Performed few operations on the newly created DataTable variable ‘X’.
4. Now, when I browse the session variable, the data is changed along with the changes done to ‘X’.

I don’t understand why the DataTable has changed in the Session variable as the operations were performed only on the newly created DataTable ‘X’.

Your help is greatly appreciated,
Vinay

Answer 1

You are not creating a new DataTable – your variable X is just referencing the same DataTable that is stored in session.

If you want a new DataTable with the same structure and data use the DataTable.Copy method.