Hi everyone,
please i am writing a program in C# for connecting to a microsoft access database using visual studio 2005 and ADO.NET. i want to be able to use Dataset to update,delete,insert and edit records in the database.please how do i go about this.I already have aform with a list box,a text box and four buttons for inserting,updating,deleting, and inserting records but i havent been able to get the connection to the database. i am a little bit confused if have to use a connection string and a dataAdapter to get a connection to the database everytime i want to perform each action like updating, deleting e.t.c and please how do i write the cade for the update,delete,edit and insert statements as i am a little bit new to ADO.NET and c# platform.below is the code i have written so far but it dosent work. can anyone please help me in modifying/correcting the codes.the the name of my access database is BookCSharp with a table name Books.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Data.OleDb;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace DBConnection
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}


private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

private void listBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

private void button5_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

private void button4_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string dbconnection ="Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" +@"data source=BookCSharp.mdb";

string dbcommand = "INSERT into Books (Title, Pages, AuthorBook) " + " VALUES ('C# good','300',OmosJigga)";

OleDbDataAdapter DataAdapterTest = new OleDbDataAdapter (dbcommand, dbconnection);

DataSet BooksDataSet = new DataSet();

DataAdapterTest. Fill(BooksDataSet);

DataTable dtBooks = BooksDataSet.Tables[0];
}

private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string dbconnection2 = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" + @"data source=BookCSharp.mdb";
string command2 = "UPDATE Books SET Title = 'Omos' WHERE Publisher = 'O,Rielly'";
OleDbDataAdapter Data2 = new OleDbDataAdapter(command2,dbconnection2);
DataSet b = new DataSet();
Data2.Fill(b);
}

private void button3_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string dbconnection1 = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" +@"data source=BookCSharp.mdb";
string command1 = "Delete from Books where (Title = ? AND Pages = ? AND AuthorKey = ? AND Publisher = ?)";
OleDbDataAdapter Data1 = new OleDbDataAdapter(command1,dbconnection1);
DataSet a = new DataSet();
Data1.Fill(a);
DataTable aBook = a.Tables[0];

}

private void textBox1_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

}
}

thanks.

Hi omoz4real.
In your code,i found that you hadn't opened your connection before executed a command,so you probably couldn't connect to the database.
If you didn't intend to execute a command which return a table as a result,you should use another way.There is xxCommand.ExecuteNonQuery().
I have a small attached program that clear your confuse.
Hope this useful.

Ok, I give u details or a road map about ADO.Net I think it's interessant to know that from at first.
At contrast of the ADO plus where the connected mode is only connected , In the ADO.NET there are two modes, namely, the connected mode and the disconnected mode. In the first mode we use the connection and the Datareader, those two objects provide us a direct connection to the database. The data reader can only read data by moving forward you can make direct update only by using the ExecuteNonQuery method of the command objet. The second way I mean the disconnected use a data connection dataAdapter and a Dataset
When the connection is established and the method Fill of the dataAdpter is called the last one fill all desired data from data base in the dataset wirch is an xml data representation
then the connection is closed. The Ado dot net is using this technic to enhance the securities connections and to optimise the situation in a multi connection environnement. because the number of connection can decrease the application performances.
By the way a thing you have a mistake when writting the connection string you forgot the root C:\\dataBaseName.mdb instead of dataBaseName.mdb in data source

Yes.
I agree with Jugortha about two connection mode.And i also agree with him about what doing for each connected type.I had noticed these details in my attached program(readme.txt).
Thank for make it clearly.

Just stumbled upon this old thread.

My thanks for the example attachment program.
I have been searching for so long.

Thanks

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