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SEB’s VB.NET Guide
Working with Databases
Overview of Task Sequence:
1.Set up your project / solution.2.Set up your database.3.Save your database into your project’s start up file (i.e.: into its BIN folder)4.Manipulate your database through your code –
the following instructions aredesigned to help you through this stage
.Initial Set-upAdd the following line above the class declaration:Imports System.Data.Oledb
Declare Module Level Variables:
Manipulation of a database through a VB.NET solution requires the following:
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OleDbDataAdapter
The OleDbDataAdapter is used to set up the type and path of the connection.
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Dataset
The Dataset is used to temporarily store the data from the database.
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OleDbCommandBuilder
The OleDbCommandBuilder enables the database to be updated & manipulatedVariables must be declared for each of these at modular level.EG:
Dim objDA As OleDbDataAdapter Dim objDS As New Data.DataSet()Dim objCB As OleDbCommandBuilder
Loading Data from a Database:
You need to know what you intend to do with the data. The following provides anexample for placing the data from a database into a series of labels (the labels arereferenced through their group box indexes).1.Establish the connection
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2.Initialise database variables3.Fill the dataset with the contents of the database table4.Populate the labels
1.Establish the connection
objDA = New OleDbDataAdapter(“Select * from Data”, _ “Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Password=;” _ & “User ID=Admin;Data Source =” & _ Application.StartupPath & “\Dbase.mdb”)
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ObjDA is the OleDbDataAdapter variable previously declared
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This is all one statement which has overflowed across several lines – when this occurs ina program, underscores are required to indicate that where one line continues on toanother.
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There are two strings passed in through the parenthasis:
“Select * from Data”
This is an SQL statement which extracts the required data from the database.
* means anything / everything (ie: all fields)
Data
is the name of the table in the database being accessed
The SQL statement can extract more specific data or extract the datain a specified order (sorted)
“Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Password=; User ID=Admin;DataSource =” & Application.StartupPath & “\Dbase.mdb”)
Note: The & at the beginning of line 3 was used only rejoin the string where is had been split.
This statement specifies the type of database being accessed
Application.StartupPath
is a relative path (to the projects BINfile)
Dbase
is the name of the database being accessed
2.Initialise database variables
objDS = New Data.DataSet()objCB = New OleDbCommandBuilder(objDA)
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objDS
and
ObjCB
are variables previously declared to store required data components
3.Fill the dataset with the contents of the database table
objDA.Fill(objDS, “Data”)
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Using the
Fill
property of
objDA
the dataset is filled with the contents of the table
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Data
refers to the database table.
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