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12.20.07
IDataRecord Fields To Dictionary Extension Method
 By
Paul Kinlan
I have never been a fan of directly passing IDataRecords, or IDataReaders for that matter, about the place to get simple field values out.
Therefore, with the introduction of C# 3.0 and Extension Methods, I thought it would be cool to write (and share) a simple implementation of some code that I use to convert the IDataRecord Field data to an Dictionary<string, object> object.
It is quite simple really and nothing too complex.
A place where it can be used it Windows Workflow. If you are injecting parameters into your Workflow instance you need to pass a Dictionary in, well now you can (if you desired) simply convert a IDataReader/IDataRecord object into with the following simple piece of code:
This code should be used sparingly, for instance if you wanted a very high performance access to the field data, you might as well stay on the IDataRecord.
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About the Author:
Paul Kinlan is the author of the popular C#, .Net Framework blog. Paul is an Analyst Developer working in Southport, England. Paul has several years experience developing and designing massively scalable enterprise systems on UNIX and Windows based architectures.
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