You can use DataView.

DataView dv = new DataView(yourDatatable);
dv.RowFilter = "query"; // query example = "id = 10"


http://www.csharp-examples.net/dataview-rowfilter/


If you're using at least .NET 3.5, i would suggest to use Linq-To-DataTable instead since it's much more readable and powerful:

DataTable tblFiltered = table.AsEnumerable()
          .Where(row => row.Field<String>("Nachname") == username
                   &&   row.Field<String>("Ort") == location)
          .OrderByDescending(row => row.Field<String>("Nachname"))
          .CopyToDataTable();

Above code is just an example, actually you have many more methods available.

Remember to add using System.Linq; and for the AsEnumerable extension method a reference to the System.Data.DataSetExtensions dll (How).


use it:

.CopyToDataTable()

example:

string _sqlWhere = "Nachname = 'test'";
string _sqlOrder = "Nachname DESC";

DataTable _newDataTable = yurDateTable.Select(_sqlWhere, _sqlOrder).CopyToDataTable();

Sometimes you actually want to return a DataTable than a DataView. So a DataView was not good in my case and I guess few others would want that too. Here is what I used to do

myDataTable.select("myquery").CopyToDataTable()

This will filter myDataTable which is a DataTable and return a new DataTable

Hope someone will find that is useful


For anybody who work in VB.NET (just in case)

Dim dv As DataView = yourDatatable.DefaultView

dv.RowFilter ="query" ' ex: "parentid = 0"