How would a loop be written in C# that uses DFirst?

In your VBA example you are using data stored on an excel spreadsheet, for the C# where will this data be stored?

If it is still in an Excel spreadsheet why try to use to C# at all. While C# is a more powerful programming language, VBA has been developed specifically for use with MS Office and personally I believe you are better off leaving the code in VBA.

Michael

I don't have a choice. My company is dropping support for MS Access so my apps have to be rewritten in C#.

The code is based on SQL Server 2005 tables.

There are no Excel files involved here.

Hi,

The syntax for the DFirst function is:
DFirst ( expression, domain, [criteria] )

expression is the field from which you want the first value.
domain is the set of records. This can be a table or a query name.
criteria is optional. It is the WHERE clause to apply to the domain.

In other words, it is a SELECT TOP(1) clause in SQL.

In .NET, you will replace this with SqlCommand.

This is just an example of how you should go with this:

SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection("ConnectionString");
conn.Open();

for (int intBranch = 1; intBranch < 1000; intBranch++)
{
    SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("SELECT TOP(1) [CPS Account Number] FROM          
    tblFlLNExp WHERE [CPS Account Number] LIKE '%" + intBranch.ToString() + "%'", conn);
}

conn.Close();


Please let me know if anything.

Regards,
Igor

How would you make the comparison so that the intBranch value are 3 positions in length with leading zeroes? (for ex: 001, 002 ... 099, ...999)

Because the values in Left([CPS Account Number],3) =  001, 002, 003

I tried the following but it doesn't translate to the first value being 001

sql = "SELECT TOP(1) [CPS Account Number] FROM tblFlLNExp WHERE [CPS Account Number] LIKE '%" + intBranch.ToString("000") + "%'";

Would I need to cast it to int and keep the zeros to create a copy of it and then cast it to int, then have 2 versions of it, one as int and one as string?

intBranch num = 001; // 3 digit number

string sNum = num.ToString("000");

How would I incorporate the above into my loop if this is what needs to be done?

My goal is to create values from 001 to 999 and by using

intBranch.ToString() + "000";    

the values generated would appear to be 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, ... 50000 ... 400000 ...

up to 999000

What I'm trying to state is that Left([CPS Account Number],3) has values
such as 001, 002, 003, 004, 005 up to 999.

So the intBranch would have to have values such as 001, 002, 003, 004, 005 up to 999
to create a match when comparing the 2 values.