I'm not sure it will be helpful or not. As far as I get from your question that you want EmployeeName
to be distinct irrelevant to other columns. But if you do ToTable
and turn on the distinct flag it will give all the distinct rows, doesn't matter how many columns are involved there. So if you mention only EmployeeName it will obviously give you distinct EmployeeNames, not all the columns associated with it.
So, thats what I did, initially select only the distinct EmployeeName
columns and put it into a temp DataTable dtt.
DataTable dtt = dvFail.DefaultView.ToTable(true, "EmployeeName");
Secondly I've created another temp DataTable where we put the segregated rows from the main DataTable dtFail and set the column names manually.
DataTable TempDataTable = new DataTable();
DataTable dtFailed = new DataTable();
Prepare the columns in the dtFailed DataTable.
if (dtFailed.Columns.Count == 0)
{
dtFailed.Columns.Add("EmployeeName");
dtFailed.Columns.Add("EmployeeRole");
dtFailed.Columns.Add("Status");
dtFailed.Columns.Add("Date");
}
Loop through the distinct EmployeeName dtt DataTable and match the EmployeeName and keep that selected first
row in the TempDataTable. Finally all rows transferred into the dtFailed.
for (int j = 0; j < dtt.Rows.Count; j++)
{
string EmployeeName = dtt.Rows[j]["EmployeeName"].ToString();
TempDataTable = dvFail.Select("EmployeeName = " + EmployeeName).CopyToDataTable();
dtFailed.Rows.Add(TempDataTable.Rows[0].ItemArray);
}