Dynamic type for List<T>?

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Published on 2010-04-30T12:43:39Z Indexed on 2010/04/30 12:47 UTC
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Hi All,

I've got a method that returns a List for a DataSet table

public static List<string> GetListFromDataTable(DataSet dataSet, string tableName, string rowName)
    {
        int count = dataSet.Tables[tableName].Rows.Count;
        List<string> values = new List<string>();

        // Loop through the table and row and add them into the array
        for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
        {
            values.Add(dataSet.Tables[tableName].Rows[i][rowName].ToString());
        }
        return values;
    }

Is there a way I can dynamically set the datatype for the list and have this one method cater for all datatypes so I can specify upon calling this method that it should be a List<int> or List<string> or List<AnythingILike>?

Also, what would the return type be when declaring the method?

Thanks in advance, Brett

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