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I am using an ADO.NET SqlCommand with a single SqlDbType.Structured parameter to send a table-valued parameter to a sproc. The sproc returns many rows, which I need to get into a strongly-Typed List of . What is the best way to convert the result set (whether DataTable from a DataAdapter or DataReader bits) into List? Thanks. You can use LINQ with a DataReader: var list = reader.Cast<IDataRecord>() .Select(dr => new YourType { Name = dr.GetString(0), ... }) .ToList(); The most efficient way is using datareader: var items = new LinkedList<MyClass>(); using(var connection = GetConnection()) {

From msdn website I get the following: A special data type for specifying structured data contained in table-valued parameters. It seems my code works with it and without it (pushing table to DB using stored procedure). Can someone explain what does it do - I didn't understand it from the definition. SQL Police In SQL Server, you can define stored procedures and you can pass tables as parameter. This is then called a table valued parameter . When you are programming in C#, you can pass such a table-valued parameter to the database by using the SqlDbType.Structured constant. This post shows an