Getting Value from DataView C#

Question

How to find a value of some column from DataView.CurrentItem.

Answer 1

As Paul pointed out in his comment, there is no CurrentItem member in the DataView class.

If you know the index of the item, you can access a column by its name as shown below :

string name = dataView[index]["Name"] as string;

Similarly, if you have an instance of a DataRowView (a view of a DataRow), you can do that :

string name = dataRowView["Name"] as string;

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EDIT: I just noticed the WPF tag on your question... perhaps you're talking about a CollectionView, not DataView ?

CollectionView doesn't have "columns" per se, but it can be represented in a GridView or DataGrid (which both have columns). It's just a view over a collection of objects. To access a specific field or property of the current object, there are two main options :

• if you statically know the actual type of the collection items : cast the CurrentItem to that type, and directly access the members you need
• if you don't know the type, you can use reflection on the CurrentItem to access its properties or fields by name