Create ADO.NET DataView showing only selected Columns

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JaysonFix picture JaysonFix · Jul 29, 2009 · Viewed 18.3k times · Source

In C# & .NET, can one create a DataView that includes only a proper subset of the DataColumns of a given DataTable?

In terms of relational algebra, one assigns a RowFilter in order to perform a "selection" operation (σ). How would one perform a "projection" operation (π)?

Answer

Thomas Levesque picture Thomas Levesque · Jul 29, 2009

You can't do that, but you can create a copy of the table with only the columns you want :

DataView view = new DataView(table);
DataTable table2 = view.ToTable(false, "FirstColumn", "SecondColumn", "ThirdColumn");

Optionally you can return rows that have distinct values for the selected columns :

DataView view = new DataView(table);
DataTable table2 = view.ToTable(true, "FirstColumn", "SecondColumn", "ThirdColumn");

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