Thank you, Bill.
>This is a snippet from some code that loops through all the columns in a datatable and checks the data type.
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>if (Table.Columns[i].DataType == typeof(System.String))
>{
> // do something with the string
>}
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>>Hi,
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>>Is there a way to determine in code the type of value in a column of a data set? Here is example:
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>>DataTable myTable = myDataSet.Tables[0];
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>>DataRow dr = myTable.Rows[0];
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>>// Row dr has a column ACCESS_ENABLED. I need to know if the type is Int or Bit (True/False)
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>>What happened is that sometimes this column is integer and I check if the value 1 using the following method:
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>>lUserHasAccess = dr["ACCESS_ENABLED"].ToString().Equals("1");
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>>But if the value of the column is True (type in SQL Server is BIT) it always returns False. So I need to change the code to evaluate the type.
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>>TIA
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