How To- Convert Data Table into List

Recently I have posted an article Convert a Generic List to a Datatable. Today I am explaining here the reverse way of my previous article i.e conversion of DataTable into List.

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 So Lets start the conversion of DataTable into List. First of all add the following namespaces-

Bind asp.net dropdownlist to xml file

Today I was working on binding the dropdown list control from an  XML file. Besides binding the dropdown list from XML file I had to sort the items into ascending order. So I am explaining here what I have done for this.

Let’s define an  XML file first. It consists of Department name of a company.