Programming Microsoft® ADO.NET 2.0 Core Reference, 2nd Edition

Chapter 8. Sorting, Searching, and Filtering

In this chapter:

Using the DataTable Class’s Searching and Filtering Features

What Is a DataView Object?

Working with DataView Objects in Code

Creating DataView Objects in Microsoft Visual Studio

DataView Object Reference

Questions That Should Be Asked More Frequently

In Chapter 5, you learned how to use a SqlDataAdapter object to fetch the results of queries into a DataSet object. In Chapter 6, which covered the DataSet class and the objects it contains, you learned how to examine the results of such queries by looping through the DataRow objects in a DataTable.

But how do you locate a specific row in your DataTable by a value or set of values? How do you apply a filter so that only rows that satisfy the specified ...