Convert DataTable to generic list extension

The background to the following post is this question on Stack Overflow and my old blog post about generic list to DataTable. The question on Stack Overflow is basically asking the opposite of what I wrote in my blog post, but doing the opposite is almost the same code so I figured I just write it down and here it is:

public static class DataTableExtensions
{
    public static IList<T> ToList<T>(this DataTable table) where T : new()
    {
        IList<PropertyInfo> properties = typeof(T).GetProperties().ToList();
        IList<T> result = new List<T>();

        foreach (var row in table.Rows)
        {
            var item = CreateItemFromRow<T>((DataRow)row, properties);
            result.Add(item);
        }

        return result;
    }

    private static T CreateItemFromRow<T>(DataRow row, IList<PropertyInfo> properties) where T : new()
    {
        T item = new T();
        foreach (var property in properties)
        {
            property.SetValue(item, row[property.Name], null);
        }
        return item;
    }
}

You could probably add some overload to exclude properties, I would in that case go for the signature static List<T> ToList<T>(this DataTable table, params string[] excludeProperties), but I leave that up to you. You might also need some error handling depending on where the code is used.

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