May 2010
Beginner to intermediate
551 pages
18h 34m
English
Content preview from Stephens' C# Programming with Visual Studio® 2010 24-Hour Trainer
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Programming Databases, Part 1
Database programming is another truly enormous topic, so there isn’t room to cover it all here.
However, Visual Studio provides tools that make some simple kinds of database programs so
easy to write that your education won’t be complete until you’ve written a few.
In this lesson, you learn how to make a simple database application. You learn how to connect
to a database, load data, let the user navigate through records, and save any changes.
CONNECTING TO A DATABASE
The first step in building a database program is giving it a connection to the data. You can do
this interactively at design time quite easily, although quite a few steps are involved.
1. First open the Data menu and select Add New Data Source to display the dialog shown
in Figure 35-1. As you can see in the figure, there are several different places you might
want the program to get data.
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LESSON 35 Programming Databases, Part 1
The data source used in this example is a database, so select Database and click Next.
2. The dialog’s next screen lets you decide whether you want to use a dataset or an entity data
model for your data. For this example, pick Dataset and click Next to make the dialog dis-
play the screen shown in Figure 35-2. ...
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