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title: "How to convert List to Datatable?"  
description: "How to convert List to Datatable?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2014-10-26  
updated: 2014-10-26  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/2434/how-to-convert-list-to-datatable  
category: "asp.net"  
tags: ["c#", "asp.net"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How to convert List to Datatable?

how to [convert](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/2093/configurationmanager-appsettings-convert-n-to-n-why) list to [datatable](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/195/datatable-in-ado-dot-net) in asp.net.

## Replies

### Reply by Anonymous User

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Hi Goti please visit this example\

```
public static DataTable ToDataTable<T>(List<T> items){        DataTable dataTable = new DataTable(typeof(T).Name);    	PropertyInfo[] Props = typeof(T).GetProperties(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance);        foreach (PropertyInfo prop in Props)        {            dataTable.Columns.Add(prop.Name);        }        foreach (T item in items)        {           var values = new object[Props.Length];           for (int i = 0; i < Props.Length; i++)           {                values[i] = Props[i].GetValue(item, null);           }           dataTable.Rows.Add(values);      }      return dataTable;}
```


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