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try with the following:<br />
Extract a row from the dataview, any.<br />
this DataRow object has a DataTable property<br />
Look at the components of this datatable<br />
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that is:<br />
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foreach (DataColumn col in yourview.Rows[0].DataTable<wbr />.Columns)<br />
{<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; string name = col.Name<br />
}
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try with the following:
Extract a row from the dataview, any.
this DataRow object has a DataTable property
Look at the components of this datatable

that is:

foreach (DataColumn col in yourview.Rows[0].DataTable.Columns)
{
        string name = col.Name
}

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I found an answer here that uses the DataView.Table property to get the column names. &nbsp;This is valid if all of the columns are used in the DataView. &nbsp;However, I have DataView instances that do not always show all of the columns. &nbsp;Both the .Table property and the ToTable() method return a DataTable with ALL of the columns of the underlying table. &nbsp;Is there a way to extract the column names from the DataView itself so that I can only show those that pertain to the DataView? &nbsp;Is there some way to isolate that information?
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I found an answer here that uses the DataView.Table property to get the column names.  This is valid if all of the columns are used in the DataView.  However, I have DataView instances that do not always show all of the columns.  Both the .Table property and the ToTable() method return a DataTable with ALL of the columns of the underlying table.  Is there a way to extract the column names from the DataView itself so that I can only show those that pertain to the DataView?  Is there some way to isolate that information?

Extracting column names from a DataView

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