I have a table like this in my Linq to sql class :
ID CL1 CL2 CL3 ... CL20
-- ---- ---- ----- ------
1 12 35 54 .... 44
2 11 35 78 ..... 75
data is not important in this example.
I need to access to each column with their index.
for example to reach data in CL3 like this:
var x = db.myTable.single(a=>a.ID==1)[3];
can anyone help me please?
You could convert your result to a DataTable like this
public static DataTable ConvertToDataTable<T>(IList<T> list)
{
var dt = new DataTable();
var properties = typeof(T).GetProperties();
foreach (var pi in properties)
dt.Columns.Add(pi.Name, pi.PropertyType);
foreach (T element in list) {
var row = dt.NewRow();
foreach (var pi in properties)
row[pi.Name] = pi.GetValue(element, null);
dt.Rows.Add(row);
}
return dt;
}
and then you can access the columns by name or by index.
var dt = ConvertToDataTable<test>(list);
var CL5 = dt.Rows[0][5];
var CL5_by_name = dt.Rows[1]["CL5"];
Properties in the object are not necessarily in the same order the columns are in the database.
You could do reflection to select a property by index but that wouldn't make sense. You should use names of the columns instead.
Based on your comment that the columns have name ending with a digit here is what you can do.
int columnIndex = 3;
var property = (from p in db.myTable.GetType().GetProperties()
where p.Name.EndsWith(columnIndex.ToString())
select p).First();
var record = db.myTable.single(a=>a.ID==1);
var x = property.GetValue(record, null)