DataSet does not support System.Nullable<> in Export

Question

I was trying to generate a Report using Export to Excell, PDF, TextFile. Well I am doing this in MVC. I have a class which I named SPBatch (which is the exact name of my Stored Procedure in my SQL) and it contains the following:

public string BatchNo { get; set; }
public string ProviderName { get; set; }
public Nullable<System.Int32> NoOfClaims { get; set; }
public Nullable<System.Int32> TotalNoOfClaims { get; set; }
public Nullable<System.Decimal> TotalBilled { get; set; }
public Nullable<System.Decimal> TotalInputtedBill { get; set; }
public Nullable<System.DateTime> DateCreated { get; set; }
public Nullable<System.DateTime> DateSubmitted { get; set; }
public Nullable<System.DateTime> DueDate { get; set; }
public string Status { get; set; }
public string RefNo { get; set; }
public string BatchStatus { get; set; }
public string ClaimType { get; set; }

as you can see some of my Columns are declared as Nullable. It went smoothly from searching and displaying the results in a table. I have several buttons below which are image buttons for export and every time I try to export in Excel, I always get the problem "DataSet does not support System.Nullable<>" in this part of my code:

foreach (MemberInfo mi in miArray)
{
    if (mi.MemberType == MemberTypes.Property)
    {
        PropertyInfo pi = mi as PropertyInfo;
        dt.Columns.Add(pi.Name, pi.PropertyType); //where the error pop's up.

    }
    else if (mi.MemberType == MemberTypes.Field)
    {
        FieldInfo fi = mi as FieldInfo;
        dt.Columns.Add(fi.Name, fi.FieldType);
    }
}

the error shows up on the one with a comment. Can you help me what to do? I tried adding DBNull in my code but still I get the same error. I tried removing Nullable in my SPBatch but I get an error that some tables are need to be declared as Nullable.

What should I do?

Answer 1

try with

dt.Columns.Add(pi.Name, Nullable.GetUnderlyingType(
            pi.PropertyType) ?? pi.PropertyType);