Populate a DataSet using Context - Entity Framework 4

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Populate a DataSet using Context - Entity Framework 4

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I have some Data returning from a Context. Data has being pulled by spCmsCategoriesReadHierarchy.

I need take all Data from Context and populate my DataSet. My final goal is to populate a TreeView Control with DataSet object.

Any ideas? Thanks for your time and patience.

using (TestHierarchyEntities context = new TestHierarchyEntities())
{
    int n = 0;
    Int16 sl = 1;
    ObjectParameter nn = new ObjectParameter("nn", typeof(int));

    // Create a Data Set where adding the result of context 
    DataSet dataSet = new DataSet("myDataSet");

    foreach (CmsCategory categories in context.spCmsCategoriesReadHierarchy(n,sl,nn))
    {
    }
}

GibboK

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This method will convert a list of objects to a datatable. It was given as an answer to this question.

/// <summary>
/// Create data table from list.
/// https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18746064/using-reflection-to-create-a-datatable-from-a-class
/// </summary>
public static DataTable CreateDataTable<T>(IEnumerable<T> list)
{
    Type type = typeof(T);
    var properties = type.GetProperties();      

    DataTable dataTable = new DataTable();
    foreach (PropertyInfo info in properties)
    {
        dataTable.Columns.Add(new DataColumn(info.Name, Nullable.GetUnderlyingType(info.PropertyType) ?? info.PropertyType));
    }

    foreach (T entity in list)
    {
        object[] values = new object[properties.Length];
        for (int i = 0; i < properties.Length; i++)
        {
            values[i] = properties[i].GetValue(entity);
        }

        dataTable.Rows.Add(values);
    }

    return dataTable;
}

Hans Vonn

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Brian Mains · Accepted Answer · 1/7/2011 2:08:21 PM

Sure, you can manually copy the data over from the object to a data row within the dataset.

DataSet dataSet = new DataSet("myDataSet");
dataSet.Tables.Add(new DataTable());
//Setup the table columns.

foreach (CmsCategory categories in context.spCmsCategoriesReadHierarchy(n,sl,nn))
{
    DataRow row = dataSet.Tables[0].NewRow();
    row["A"] = categories.A;
    row["B"] = categories.B;

    dataSet.Tables[0].Rows.Add(row);
}

If you are not looking to explicitly copy over the properties to the data row, you can also use reflection to do the copying.

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