The following table shows the mappings between individual fields in an ABL temp-table to their corresponding data types in an individual ADO.NET DataTable.

Table 1. Data type conversions for temp-table fields
ABL data type .NET 
BLOB
 
System.Byte[ ]
 
CHARACTER
 
System.String
 
CLOB
 
System.String
 
COM-HANDLE
 
System.Int64
 
DATE
DATETIME
DATETIME-TZ
 
System.DateTime
 
DECIMAL
 
System.Decimal
 
HANDLE
 
System.Int64
 
INT64
 
System.Int6
 
INTEGER
 
System.Int32
 
LOGICAL
 
System.Boolea
 
RAW
 
System.Byte[ ]
 
RECID
 
System.Int64
 
ROWID
 
System.Byte[ ]
 
WIDGET-HANDLE
 
System.Int64