Best way to get a single value from a DataTable?
- by PiersMyers
I have a number of static classes that contain tables like this:
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Globalization;
public static class TableFoo
{
private static readonly DataTable ItemTable;
static TableFoo()
{
ItemTable = new DataTable("TableFoo") { Locale = CultureInfo.InvariantCulture };
ItemTable.Columns.Add("Id", typeof(int));
ItemTable.Columns["Id"].Unique = true;
ItemTable.Columns.Add("Description", typeof(string));
ItemTable.Columns.Add("Data1", typeof(int));
ItemTable.Columns.Add("Data2", typeof(double));
ItemTable.Rows.Add(0, "Item 1", 1, 1.0);
ItemTable.Rows.Add(1, "Item 2", 1, 1.0);
ItemTable.Rows.Add(2, "Item 3", 2, 0.75);
ItemTable.Rows.Add(3, "Item 4", 4, 0.25);
ItemTable.Rows.Add(4, "Item 5", 1, 1.0);
}
public static DataTable GetItemTable()
{
return ItemTable;
}
public static int Data1(int id)
{
DataRow[] dr = ItemTable.Select("Id = " + id);
if (dr.Length == 0)
{
throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("id", "Out of range.");
}
return (int)dr[0]["Data1"];
}
public static double Data2(int id)
{
DataRow[] dr = ItemTable.Select("Id = " + id);
if (dr.Length == 0)
{
throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("id", "Out of range.");
}
return (double)dr[0]["Data2"];
}
}
Is there a better way of writing the Data1 or Data2 methods that return a single value from a single row that matches the given id?
