title: Adding rows to the Datatable in c#
body: <p>I am working on a project and i want to add rows to the Datatable and what is happening is if i am  fetching two rows from the database only one of the two is being added to the datatable but i want both to be added to the datatable i.e the datatable is not able to hold the  data of first row,the data is being overwrite by data of second row.
  the code of the method is.
  this is my calling statement.</p>
  
  <pre><code>    DataTable dttable = new DataTable();
      dttable = gettable(dtgreater, dtcurrentdate);
      public DataTable gettable(List&lt;DateTime&gt; objct1, DateTime objct2)
      {
  
      DataTable data=null;
      for (int j = 0; j &lt; dtgreater.Count; j++)
      {
          sql = "select library_issue.STUDENTCODE,library_issue.studentname,library_book.bookname,library_issue.issuedate,library_issue.returndate from library_issue             join library_book on library_book.book_id = library_issue.book_id where library_issue.returndate ='" + objct1[j].ToString("dd/MM/yyyy") + "'";
          ds = obj.openDataset(sql, Session["SCHOOLCODE"].ToString());
          Label1.Text = (ds.Tables[0].Rows.Count).ToString();
          data = new DataTable();
          data.Columns.Add("STUDENTCODE", typeof(int));
          data.Columns.Add("Studentname", typeof(string));
          data.Columns.Add("Bookname", typeof(string));
          data.Columns.Add("Issuedate", typeof(string));
          data.Columns.Add("Returndate", typeof(string));
          data.Columns.Add("NO of Days Exceeded", typeof(string));
          for (int i = 0; i &lt; ds.Tables[0].Rows.Count; i++)
          {
  
              TimeSpan ts = objct1[j] - objct2;
              Label1.Text = ts.ToString("dd");
              data.Rows.Add(ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["STUDENTCODE"], ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["studentname"], ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["bookname"], ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["issuedate"], ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["returndate"], ts.ToString("dd"));
  
          }
  
      }
  
       return data;
  } 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>   public DataTable gettable(List&lt;DateTime&gt; objct1, DateTime objct2)
      {
  
          DataTable data = new DataTable();
  
          data.Columns.Add("STUDENTCODE", typeof(int));
          data.Columns.Add("Studentname", typeof(string));
          data.Columns.Add("Bookname", typeof(string));
          data.Columns.Add("Issuedate", typeof(string));
          data.Columns.Add("Returndate", typeof(string));
          data.Columns.Add("NO of Days Exceeded", typeof(string));
      for (int j = 0; j &lt; dtgreater.Count; j++)
      {
          sql = "select library_issue.STUDENTCODE,library_issue.studentname,library_book.bookname,library_issue.issuedate,library_issue.returndate from library_issue             join library_book on library_book.book_id = library_issue.book_id where library_issue.returndate ='" + objct1[j].ToString("dd/MM/yyyy") + "'";
          ds = obj.openDataset(sql, Session["SCHOOLCODE"].ToString());
          Label1.Text = (ds.Tables[0].Rows.Count).ToString();
  
          for (int i = 0; i &lt; ds.Tables[0].Rows.Count; i++)
          {
  
              TimeSpan ts = objct1[j] - objct2;
              Label1.Text = ts.ToString("dd");
              data.Rows.Add(ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["STUDENTCODE"], ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["studentname"], ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["bookname"], ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["issuedate"], ds.Tables[0].Rows[i]["returndate"], ts.ToString("dd"));
  
          }
  
      }
  
       return data;
  } 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Discription:</strong> As I was initializing the datatable inside the for loop which was causing the creation of new instance of datatable each time .
   As a result of which i was getting only one rows each time.          </p>