How can I populate a class from the results of a SQL query in C#?

Question

I've got a class like this:

public class Product
{
    public int ProductId { get; private set; }
    public int SupplierId { get; private set; }

    public string Name { get; private set; }
    public decimal Price { get; private set; }
    public int Stock { get; private set; }
    public int PendingStock { get; private set; }
}

I can fetch those details from my database like this:

SELECT product_id, supplier_id, name, price, total_stock, pending_stock 
FROM products
WHERE product_id = ?

I don't want to have to manually run through a DataSet or DataTable to set the values.

I'm sure there's a way to populate the class using some kind of binding / mapping mechanism, but the only stuff I could find was for binding to winforms components or using XAML.

Is there some kind of attribute I can apply to my properties / class to have the class automatically populated from a query row?

Answer 1

I've decided to propose another answer, which actually extension to the answer provided by Alex (so all credits to him), but it introduces attributes for the sake of column-name-2-property-name mapping.

First of all custom attribute to hold column name is needed:

[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Property, Inherited = true)]
[Serializable]
public class MappingAttribute : Attribute
{
    public string ColumnName = null;
}

The attribute must be applied to those properties of the class, that are to be populated from database row:

public class Product
{
    [Mapping(ColumnName = "product_id")]
    public int ProductId { get; private set; }

    [Mapping(ColumnName = "supplier_id")]
    public int SupplierId { get; private set; }

    [Mapping(ColumnName = "name")]
    public string Name { get; private set; }
    [Mapping(ColumnName = "price")]
    public decimal Price { get; private set; }
    [Mapping(ColumnName = "total_stock")]
    public int Stock { get; private set; }
    [Mapping(ColumnName = "pending_stock")]
    public int PendingStock { get; private set; }
}

And rest goes as Alex proposed, except that the attribute is used to retrieve column name:

T MapToClass<T>(SqlDataReader reader) where T : class
{
        T returnedObject = Activator.CreateInstance<T>();
        PropertyInfo[] modelProperties = returnedObject.GetType().GetProperties();
        for (int i = 0; i < modelProperties.Length; i++)
        {
            MappingAttribute[] attributes = modelProperties[i].GetCustomAttributes<MappingAttribute>(true).ToArray();

            if (attributes.Length > 0 && attributes[0].ColumnName != null)
                modelProperties[i].SetValue(returnedObject, Convert.ChangeType(reader[attributes[0].ColumnName], modelProperties[i].PropertyType), null);
        }
        return returnedObject;
}