How to retrieve the datatype SIZE from the datatable

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how to retrieve the column datatype size form the data table.

thanks in advance :)

What I have tried:

Dim tblProducts as DataTable
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For i As Integer = 0 To tblProducts.Rows.Count
                     Dim d = tblProducts.Columns(i).DataType ' here How to retrieve the datatype size ?? :(
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Posted 7-Jan-18 21:32pm

ketan Ram Patil

Updated 9-Jan-18 6:45am

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Richard Deeming · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-09T06:45:00

Solution 2

To retrieve the size of a string column, use the MaxLength[^] property:

VB.NET

Dim s As Integer = tblProducts.Columns(i).MaxLength

Posted 9-Jan-18 6:45am

Richard Deeming

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-07T22:09:00

Solution 1

Do you mean the data type for column 'size'?

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tblProducts.Columns["size"].DataType

Also! Columns is a collection of the columns (surprisingly) and has nothing to do with the number of rows!!!
If you want to iterate over the columns use a loop like this:

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For Each column In tblProducts.Columns
  ' Your code here
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Posted 7-Jan-18 22:09pm

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

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ketan Ram Patil 8-Jan-18 4:18am

thanks for your valuable replay. :)

But i want to know the size of each column Data type.

eg.if column Product contain string data type then how to retrive the actual size of string data type.

i want to create a new table from the datatable.

so to create a new table i am able to retrieve the column name and data type but not able retrieve actual datatype size :( ????????

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 8-Jan-18 4:39am

Do you mean if in the SQL you declared CHAR(30) than you want to get 'String' and '30'?
You can not! DataTable is a generic type to work with any kind of data source and works on the minimal level...
But - to contradict that general nature - for text (string variant) types there is a MaxLength value, however... not all provides will set that value, so you may not build on it. You also have to get the schema info when filling the data...
Adapter.Fill(...);
Adapter.FillSchema(...);