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How to perform ADO.NET connection to MS Access database, place into dataset and manipulate

Hi I've been unwittingly using ADO without realising there was a difference between that and ADO.NET.

Anyway, I just want to try and switch to ADO.NET but i'm not really sure how to do it. I've gotten as far as below... made the connection to the database and everything went fine there. What do I do from here? I guess i need to put the data into a dataset and start working with it... how do i go about this? If I have a int column called 'Int1' and a string column called 'string1' for example, how do i go about looping through, extracting data etc...

Now, I've seen a second piece of code about this which i put at the end below, which seems to show how to create a dataset... although what confuses me here is that it seems to be creating it's own connection to the database? Some help please!

'Connection to database
Dim strConnection As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;User ID=Admin;Data Source=" & "'" & Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/CTC Database.mdb") & "'"
Dim cnnRead As OleDbDataReader
 
      strSQL = "SELECT * FROM([CTC Table])"

With cnn
         .Connection = New OleDbConnection(strConnection)
         .Connection.Open()
         .CommandText = strSQL
         cnnRead = .ExecuteReader()
End With

'Second piece of code i've seen to create a dataset
Dim da As New OleDbDataAdapter(strSQL, strConnection)
Dim ds As New DataSet()
da.Fill(ds, "Customers")

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justin-clarke

If you use the above code you can loop through the dataset like so....

If (ds.Tables(0).Rows.Count > 0) Then

   For Each row As DataRow In ds.Tables(0).Rows

      'inside here you can access all the "rows"
      Dim strInt1 As String = row("Int1").ToString()

      Dim strString1 As String = row("String1").ToString()

   Next

End If

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AidenA

ASKER

Hi, thanks,

but as in my question... i'm just wondering also, how to get from first piece of code to second piece of code. What should i be using here... this datareader or OleDbDataAdapter? can you just link it together for me as i'm having trouble figuring it out...

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justin-clarke

Think that should be OK off the top of my head.

AidenA

ASKER

yeah seemed to work ok thanks.

so just one last thing then... what is cnnRead = .ExecuteReader() used for then in the above code?

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AidenA

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ok thanks, so i should use in certain situations. Can't get the dataview to work though. Below is what i have... i put into a class (is that the right way to go about it?)

but doesn't work cmd.ExecuteReader throws an exception because it says 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object.' How do i create this details view properly?

'In one of my webpages where i want to create a connection

Dim objCC As New CreateConnection(strConnection, strSQL)
objCC.CreateDataView("Ref No")

'class to create connection
Public Class CreateConnection

   Public ds As New DataSet()
   Public cnnADO As OleDbConnection
   Public cmd As OleDbCommand
   Public dt As DataTable

   Public Sub New(ByVal strConnection As String, ByVal strSQL As String)

      cnnADO = New OleDbConnection(strConnection)
      cmd = New OleDbCommand(strConnection, cnnADO)
      cmd.CommandText = strSQL

      cnnADO.Open()
      Dim da As New OleDbDataAdapter(strSQL, strConnection)
      da.Fill(ds)
      
   End Sub
   Public Sub CreateDataView(ByVal strColumn)
      dt = New DataTable()
      dt = ds.Tables("CTC Table")
      dt.Load(cmd.ExecuteReader())
      Dim dv As DataView = New DataView(dt)
      dv.Sort = strColumn
   End Sub
End Class

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justin-clarke

Hi

I think you are mixing two ways of "filling" your data table.

If you take out the line:

dt.Load(cmd.ExecuteReader())

It should be OK.