Hard-coding column names

[tektipster79]

I'm using a datareader to iterate through recordsets, and I'm doing a lot of this:

Employee.FirstName = dataReader["FirstName"]...

This "feels" wrong because there are a lot of hard-coded column names, but I don't see a way around it that doesn't seem a whole lot more work than it's worth.

Thanks!

 

[dseaver]

You could make it a variable, so that you only hard code in one place.

string firstCol = "FirstName";
...
Employee.FirstName = dataReader[firstCol];

Slightly better solution....

 

[tektipster79]

True, that would help some. Thanks!