Question

Simple enough. Cant find a simple solution. Not sure if their is a simple solution? :/

I have a dataTable. I essentially want to achieve this…

DataTable dt = new DataTable();
dataAdapter.Fill(dt);

TableRow tr = new TableRow();
tr = dt.Rows[0];

but i cant convert from DataRow to a TableRow!

Help!

Alex

Answer 1

if your goal is to show on the UI the data that are within a dataTable(or any other datasource) why don’t you use a repeater?

anyway you can’t just convert the DataTableRow to TableRow but you have to do it yourself.
have a look at the below code

private void GenerateTable()

    {

        DataTable dt = CreateDataTable();

        Table table = new Table();

        TableRow row = null;



        //Add the Headers

        row = new TableRow();

        for (int j = 0; j < dt.Columns.Count; j++)

        {

            TableHeaderCell headerCell = new TableHeaderCell();

            headerCell.Text = dt.Columns[j].ColumnName;

            row.Cells.Add(headerCell);

        }

        table.Rows.Add(row);



        //Add the Column values

        for (int i = 0; i < dt.Rows.Count; i++)

        {

            row = new TableRow();

            for (int j = 0; j < dt.Columns.Count; j++)

            {

                TableCell cell = new TableCell();

                cell.Text = dt.Rows[i][j].ToString();

                row.Cells.Add(cell);

            }

            // Add the TableRow to the Table

            table.Rows.Add(row);

        }

        // Add the the Table in the Form

        form1.Controls.Add(table);

    }

source:

http://geekswithblogs.net/dotNETvinz/archive/2009/06/24/fill-asp.net-table-with-data-from-datatable.aspx