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C# How to populate a listbox from an SQL query

Hi

I'm new to C#

I'm trying to populate a listbox from an database query the idea is to be able to click a movie title and then fetch other info about that movie using the movie id

I've connected to the SQLite database (See Pic) and added a listbox named TitleListbox to my MainWindow.xaml

Now I'm stuck
How do I populate the TitleListbox?

    public partial class MainWindow : Window
    {
        public MainWindow()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            GetTitles();  

        }

        private void GetTitles(ListBox TitleListBox)
        {
            TitleListBox.Items.Clear();
            MovieDatabaseDataSet ds = new MovieDatabaseDataSet("select id,title,tmdbId from movie order by title");

        }
    }

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Kyle Abrahams, PMP

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trevor1940

ASKER

Hi sorry I still have red line under new MovieDatabaseDataSet("select id,title,tmdbId from movie order by title");
it say MovieDatabaseDataSet dose not contain a constructor that takes 1 argument

        public MainWindow()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            GetTitles();  

        }

        private void GetTitles(ListBox TitleListBox)
        {
            TitleListBox.Items.Clear();
            MovieDatabaseDataSet ds = new MovieDatabaseDataSet("select id,title,tmdbId from movie order by title");
            DataTable dt = ds.Tables[0];
            TitleListBox.DataSource = dt;
            TitleListBox.DisplayMember = "title";
            TitleListBox.ValueMember = "id";

        }
    }

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trevor1940

ASKER

Can some one show me the code how to do this?

I don't understand how to implement the last Experts comments

Kyle Abrahams, PMP

You have to populate the data set from the XSD. I thought you already had that portion done.
You have to do 2 things:
1) Create the structure from the dataset:
from: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/data/adonet/dataset-datatable-dataview/loading-dataset-schema-information-from-xml

DataSet dataSet = new DataSet();  
dataSet.ReadXmlSchema("schema.xsd");

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and
2: Populate the dataset:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/data/adonet/dataset-datatable-dataview/loading-a-dataset-from-xml

string xmlData = "<XmlDS><table1><col1>Value1</col1></table1><table1><col1>Value2</col1></table1></XmlDS>";  // change to your real data, can read from a file or whatever.

System.IO.StringReader xmlSR = new System.IO.StringReader(xmlData);  

dataSet.ReadXml(xmlSR, XmlReadMode.IgnoreSchema);

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from there you can run the select on the table as shown.

trevor1940

ASKER

Now you've totally lost me

The data comes from an SQL query why do I need to create an XML file?

All I'm trying to do is populate a list box with film titles (this Works)
When user Clicks a title I want to get the film ID not the selected index

trevor1940

ASKER

I'm closing this unresolved