Feed a LINQ result into a DataROW

Question

This works:

var Result = from e in actual.Elements
                         select new
                         {
                             Key = e.Key,
          


        

Answer 1

You can write a simple extension method that takes any IEnumerable, uses reflection to get the PropertyDescriptors associated with T, and creates a DataColumn for each

public static DataTable PropertiesToDataTable(this IEnumerable source)
{
      DataTable dt = new DataTable();

      var props = TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(typeof(T));

      foreach (PropertyDescriptor prop in props)
      {
          DataColumn dc = dt.Columns.Add(prop.Name,prop.PropertyType);
          dc.Caption = prop.DisplayName;
          dc.ReadOnly = prop.IsReadOnly;
      }

      foreach (T item in source)
      {
            DataRow dr = dt.Rows.NewRow();
            foreach (PropertyDescriptor prop in props)
                dr[prop.Name] = prop.GetValue(item);

            dt.Rows.Add(dr);
      }

      return dt;     
}