SQL Command Result to Dictionary C# .NET 2.0

Question

I have a simple SQL query (using SqlCommand, SqlTransaction) in .NET 2.0 that returns a table of integer-string pairs (ID, Name). I want to get this data into a dictionary like

Answer 1

You could try an approach similar to this, adjusted to however you're currently looping over your results:

Dictionary dictionary = new Dictionary();
using (SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString))
{
    connection.Open();

    using (SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand(queryString, connection))
    {
        using (SqlDataReader reader = command.ExecuteReader())
        {
            while (reader.Read())
            {
                dictionary.Add(reader.GetInt32(0), reader.GetString(1));
            }
        }
    }
}

// do something with dictionary

The SqlDataReader.GetInt32 method and SqlDataReader.GetString method would represent the ID and Name column indices, respectively.