Pass data from database to ASP.NET page

Question

I am working on a website which is developed in ASP.NET and backbend is C#. I am dynamically trying to pass the value from the Database to the header. I can do this for the user name by simply doing <%: Context.User.Identity.GetUserName() %> and that will return the correct user name. How would I do this for a course name?

Below is my code which reads the values from the DB

public DataTable GetCourseData()
{
    string UsrName = User.Identity.Name;
    DataSet dt = new DataSet();

    using (SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(Common.ConnectionString))
    {
        using (SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("SELECT CourseName FROM Course WHERE UserName=@UserName"))
        {
            using (SqlDataAdapter sda = new SqlDataAdapter())
            {
                SqlParameter para2 = new SqlParameter("UserName", UsrName);
                cmd.Parameters.Add(para2);
                cmd.Connection = connection;
                sda.SelectCommand = cmd;
                sda.Fill(dt);
            }
        }
    }
    return dt.Tables[0];
}

If I do <%: GetCourseData() %> it doesn't return the course.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Answer 1

The problem you have is you return a DataTable which describes a whole table with your query results. You probably want to get the data you need from it, like so:

return dt.Tables[0].Rows[0]["CourseName"];