LINQ to SQL - Count of Columns in Result?

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Hi All,

Does anyone know of a way to count the number of columnns in a
Linq2SQL result? (In this case ISingleResult).

I am building a method to get summary report data. I want to be able
to add a column to my stored procedure at some point, without amending
the clientside code where the data is displayed in a gridview,
populated from a datatable - I want to define the columns in the
datatable dynamically, looping X number of columns in the LINQ result.

Hope that makes sense!

Thanks.
 
It seems to me that executing an arbitrary query where you don't know
the output schema is not the intended use-case for LINQ-to-SQL. Perhaps
just execute this via SqlCommand and your choice of SqlDataReader /
DataTable?

There is no benefit from fighting the system, just to use LINQ-to-SQL in
a case when it doesn't help you...

Marc
 
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