Best practice to check if DataRow contains a certain column
You can create an extension method to make it cleaner:
static class DataRowExtensions
{
public static object GetValue(this DataRow row, string column)
{
return row.Table.Columns.Contains(column) ? row[column] : null;
}
}
Now call it like below:
foreach(DataRow row in table)
return yield new Thingy { Name = row.GetValue("hazaa") };
As your DataTable table always has the same columns ( they won`t change for any row ) you only need to check for the columnname once.
if (table.Columns.Contains("donkey"))
{
foreach ...
}