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Lily
Lily

Reputation: 335

Define a column as nullable in System.Data.DataTable

I need to define a System.Data.DataTable in C# VS2013; in one column, it may be int or null.

But I got:

DataSet does not support System.Nullable<>.

For the definition:

public DataTable myDataTable
myDataTable = new DataTable("myName");
myDataTable.Columns.Add("ID", typeof(Int32)); 
myDataTable.Columns.Add("value1", typeof(Int32?)); // run time error 
myDataTable.Columns.Add("value2", typeof(Int32?));

Any ideas? Work around?

After making the column nullable,

DataColumn dc = myDataTable.Columns.Add("value1", typeof(Int32));
dc.AllowDBNull = true;

When I queried it, I got

Sequence contains no elements.

Please see the UPDATE.

UPDATE

int? result = (from r in myDataTable.AsEnumerable()
               where r.Field<Int32>("ID") == givenID
                   && r.Field<Int32?>("value1") == givenValue1
               select r.Field<Int32>("value2")).First();

Upvotes: 17

Views: 31555

Answers (3)

Rom Haviv
Rom Haviv

Reputation: 188

or to make it even shorter one line:

table.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("ID", typeof(Int32)) { AllowDBNull = true });

and:

row["ID"] = (object) nullableId ?? DBNull.Value;

Upvotes: 2

Sadiqabbas Hirani
Sadiqabbas Hirani

Reputation: 387

TRY

  public DataTable myDataTable
  myDataTable = new DataTable("myName");
  myDataTable.Columns.Add("ID", typeof(Int32)); 
  myDataTable.Columns.Add(new DataColumn { ColumnName = "VALUE1", DataType = typeof(int), AllowDBNull = true });
  myDataTable.Columns.Add(new DataColumn { ColumnName = "VALUE2", DataType = typeof(int), AllowDBNull = true });

this will make value columns nullable

and at time of insert 

DataRow dr = myDataTable.NewRow();
dr["VALUE1"] = object.value1==null? (object)DBNull.Value : object.value1;

This will do what is required

Upvotes: 10

Steve
Steve

Reputation: 216363

It is a property of the DataColumn

public DataTable myDataTable
myDataTable = new DataTable("myName");
myDataTable.Columns.Add("ID", typeof(Int32)); 
DataColumn dc = myDataTable.Columns.Add("value1", typeof(Int32)); 
dc.AllowDBNull = true;

MSDN about AllowDBNull

Upvotes: 22

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