Selecting top 5 rows from a data table

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Hi is there any way to select top 5 rows from a daat table without iteration?

Posted 13-Jul-10 20:10pm

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Sandeep Mewara 14-Jul-10 3:55am

What about just returning 5 records at a time?

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Samer Aburabie · Answer 1 · 2010-07-13T20:38:00

Please elaborate more, why you don't wanna iterate over the datatable rows? you can use lambda expressions if you are working on c# 3.0.

Posted 13-Jul-10 20:38pm

Prosanta Kundu online · Answer 2 · 2010-07-13T20:42:00

You can try LINQ.

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var result = DataTable1.AsEnumerable().Take(5);

Posted 13-Jul-10 20:42pm