Best way to remove duplicate entries from a data table

Do dtEmp on your current working DataTable:

DataTable distinctTable = dtEmp.DefaultView.ToTable( /*distinct*/ true);

It's nice.

Remove Duplicates

public DataTable RemoveDuplicateRows(DataTable dTable, string colName)
{
   Hashtable hTable = new Hashtable();
   ArrayList duplicateList = new ArrayList();

   //Add list of all the unique item value to hashtable, which stores combination of key, value pair.
   //And add duplicate item value in arraylist.
   foreach (DataRow drow in dTable.Rows)
   {
      if (hTable.Contains(drow[colName]))
         duplicateList.Add(drow);
      else
         hTable.Add(drow[colName], string.Empty); 
   }

   //Removing a list of duplicate items from datatable.
   foreach (DataRow dRow in duplicateList)
      dTable.Rows.Remove(dRow);

   //Datatable which contains unique records will be return as output.
      return dTable;
}

Here Links below

http://www.dotnetspider.com/resources/4535-Remove-duplicate-records-from-table.aspx

http://www.dotnetspark.com/kb/94-remove-duplicate-rows-value-from-datatable.aspx

For remove duplicates in column

http://dotnetguts.blogspot.com/2007/02/removing-duplicate-records-from.html

A simple way would be:

 var newDt= dt.AsEnumerable()
                 .GroupBy(x => x.Field<int>("ColumnName"))
                 .Select(y => y.First())
                 .CopyToDataTable();

This post is regarding fetching only Distincts rows from Data table on basis of multiple Columns.

Public coid removeDuplicatesRows(DataTable dt)
{
  DataTable uniqueCols = dt.DefaultView.ToTable(true, "RNORFQNo", "ManufacturerPartNo",  "RNORFQId", "ItemId", "RNONo", "Quantity", "NSNNo", "UOMName", "MOQ", "ItemDescription");
} 

You need to call this method and you need to assign value to datatable. In Above code we have RNORFQNo , PartNo,RFQ id,ItemId, RNONo, QUantity, NSNNO, UOMName,MOQ, and Item Description as Column on which we want distinct values.

Heres a easy and fast way using AsEnumerable().Distinct()

private DataTable RemoveDuplicatesRecords(DataTable dt)
{
    //Returns just 5 unique rows
    var UniqueRows = dt.AsEnumerable().Distinct(DataRowComparer.Default);
    DataTable dt2 = UniqueRows.CopyToDataTable();
    return dt2;
}