Now that we have that part out of the way lets start with the question.I am attempting to create a small application which will use data form CSV or TXT file and display it in a DataGridView.But what I am interested in is if I would be able to use SQL commands to search through the imported file. Commands like (SELECT, FROM, WITH etc.) and then poplute the DataGridView with the results.
View 9 RepliesI`m developing an appication which works with a mssql server database.At this stage I don`t have a problem connectiong to a database, because it`s on my computer.But the release version will be installed on few computers, when after installation user will have to choose the correct database to use with the application. I know how to find a working instances of MS SQL server in LAN, but after choosing an instance how to choose the correct database?
1. How to show databases availabale in th instance?
2. How to separate database designed for my application from all other databases in chosen instance?
how to add and remove entries from a database and now I need to know how to search it. I'm going to be scanning a directory and subdirectories and adding all files found to the database. I need to check if the file has already been entered into the database before adding it.
I though it'd be simple and would just require looping though each entry and checking the item for each entry. I played around with a while loop a bit and ran into some problems. Like when the database is empty.
I don't want to half-ass some code that seems to work, since that'd probably be slow and inefficient.
Also what are the technical terms for a column and row in a database. I'd to use the proper terms in the future.
I'm currently in the middle of attempting to create a query that will be used so that the application user will be able to search the a customers id number. I'm completely new to adding queries using the query builder so I've become slightly stuck on trying to get this to work currently. I have a database which is set up and in this case the table is called 'cid' which defines the customers id column in the database, this is a primary key and the column has a data type 'AutoNumber'. I've become stuck as I'm not sure what I would have to put into the filter to make this query work.
View 7 Repliesthis is what I've got so far:
Dim find As String
Dim search
find = InputBox("Enter Search Text")
search = MyRichTextBoxEx1.Find(find)
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But how can i search for the next occurrence of the search?
I'm searching through an html page and I want to put all of the Regex matches into an array? How would I go about doing this? I see the Regex.Matches but I can't quite understand how to use it an MSDN sucks when it comes to explaining it.
View 4 RepliesI haven't programmed for some time, so I'm a little rusty Basically I'm storing HTML within a variable, and I need to count the amount of times a specific element appears e.g. <h3 class=r> for now.
I thought of using a for each loop, and passing the string above into the parentheses of the loop (using a variable ofc) however for many reason's, I don't think this has a chance of working (won't bother explaining why, as I assume you can guess). Then thought of using the .Contains method of the string class, but I simply can't think of how to use it with what I'm trying to do.
I'm trying to get a program running that loads a sequential file such as "records.txt" into a two dimmensional array and searches the "records.txt" for the data that the user enters into a text box. Not quite sure how to go about doing this.
View 1 RepliesI have a simple customer database as follows :
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There are total 50 rows of customer record in my database.. I have just drag the customer database from my data source windows into my form to get all the required tools with datagrid window. I want to add the date search box on my form to search customer between the date specified in textbox. eg : From 14.05/2003(textbox1) to 25/05/2010(textbox2) After putting the date , as I click search button the customer database should be shown between selected date.
i have this code [code]i want it to return me only 1 value which is the exact text as textbox1.text.
View 1 Repliesi have this code
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For Each sWord As String In listbox1.Items
If textbox1.text.Contains(sWord) Then
but the problem is if the textbox1.text value is ( new text ) and the list box have like 3 items
new
new text
text
it will return me 3 values i want it to return me only 1 value which is the exact text as textbox1.text ( new text )
I'm using oledbdataadapter for query lets say i have a fields Firstname, Surname, Location, Gender
Firstname| Surname| Location| Gender
Angel David Alaska Female
David Leonard Alabama Male
Michael Reeves Indiana Male
i want to filter data so that if I put a keyword %david% and select combobox as "MALE" it will search david on the first three fields and return
David Leonard Alabama Male
Ok so I have this program that shows data in a treeview and that data is from a datatable.I'm basically looping through the datatable row by row and adding nodes.The data looks something like the following:
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I have a thread that is hitting the Database (where these records are stored) every 5 seconds to see if the list is smaller,bigger or changed.If so, I was just recalling the load_form sub but this was taking too long as the lists could potentially be very large. Also, there is a lot of logic that comes into play depending on what user is displaying the records in the treeview.I was wanting to know what would be the fastest way to compare the datatable that was previously used to initially create the nodes in the treeview to a tempdatatable that has the currently updated/added/removed rows and update the treeview accordingly?The only thing I could come up with was basically looping through the tempdatatable and comparing each row to the rows in the original datatable and plucking out the ones that had no match.Then recursively looping through the nodes in the treeview to find the spot that the new node should be added (based on that datarow's values).Or is there a better way to do this and I should scrap this?
I have a form that reads the data from the database table ( so you can see I have figured out how to attach to a databse table)On the form I can scroll through the data with use of the binding navigator that VB automaticly installed on the form, but I need to search the table for specific data in one field.I am guessing that one way is to use a query, but I can't figure out how to use one.I realize that this may be real simple, but because I am just learning VB, I don't know where to start.
View 4 RepliesI have a microsoft database file i'm currently working with in a project. I have already added the data source and all seems to be going well. Quick question though? What I'm looking to do was, have a button called find, when I click it I want it to bring up an input box and use the text the user types in to search through my binding source of names, if it's there I need to display its record to the textbox and if it's not there I need to print out a messagebox saying its not there. I've been told I should trim the usersResponse and look through the binding source table to see if it exists then go from there, but i'm not sure how to do that.
Here's what I have so far:
Dim Message As String = "Enter the name to find."
Const Title As String = "Database Project - Find"
Const UserEnteredNullData As String = "No input for find."
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My question is, how would I go about searching through my binding source to see if it exists and how would I display it to the name text box?
Here is my
vb.net
Module FileCheck
Public BW_AntiCorrupt As New Threading.Thread(AddressOf AntiCorrupt)
Dim THardDrive As String = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop)
Dim HardDrive As String = THardDrive.Substring(0, THardDrive.IndexOf("") + 1) 'C:
Public ContinueSearch As Boolean = True
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I am having a problem. The IO.Directory.GetFiles code is resulting in error do to the fact that it is trying to access the Temp folder in the Windows folder on drive C:. Apparently that folder is restricted... When the code encounters that folder the code stops retrieving files. Is there a way around this? Is there somewhere i can give my program administrator access? If not then am i able to skip the files in that location?
I'm writing a small app that finds the directory of an active program and displays it in a message box. e.g. Microsoft Word is open and running... click a button and the app finds the Microsoft Word's directory. It has to be able to differentiate between the active program and inactive copy of the program.
View 1 Replieshow do you search a string for capital letters, is there a function I can use to return to me how many capital letters are in a string? I have tried searching this but as yet not stumbled across a function. Most functions I found converted lower case to upper case Etc. I thought InStr might be the one but still looking for information on that one. I did find something along the lines of .char.isupper but the textbox is .text A password 'rating' tool of sorts of which I use a counter so if I enter "STRing" in the textbox for example it will return a 3 add it to the counter and continue with the little algorithm which my rater uses to add up things such as numbers or special characters to get a final score and that indicates to the user how strong the password is.
View 2 RepliesFirst (and probably not the last) post. My Problem I would like to search an array for a certain text (this has been read in from a text file (42 lines) and split to an array of 11 splits successfully). I see all the data in the array with a msgbox or written to a textbox. So I know the info is in the array.
When the text (will be from a textbox eventually, but for now is a fixed string) is found, (this is (0)), I would like to put the other parts (2), (3) etc.....into strings of their own. Obviously when not found, the search should move to the next line. My problem is, that I can't get a search loop working and moving to the next line until the text is found, it sticks on the first line, even if wrong (which it is!).
Of course when the text is found, I can write (2), (3) etc to variables and exit the search.
I know this has probably just a simple solution, but I've only been learning vb for a week now and my head is spinning at this problem, I just can't get the syntax and order right.
i am currently working on a database project using Microsoft Access 2007 and VB Express 2008.my problem is, i want to create a searching function in one of my tables; table Coachee. I know that it is possible to search data using bindingsource.filter as i've already succeeded in doing that. The thing is, how do i actually prompt a messagebox saying that the record of the Coachee ID to be searched is not found? [code]
View 4 RepliesHow would I use FileStream.Read() to search for a string inside a file and then return the string's offset? (basically like a Hex editor)
View 12 RepliesOkay so i have a very large list of string (500 000 strings) i want to check the number of duplicate strings and maybe even isolate the duplicate strings if i can.
i cant find a fast method to do so :S
i tried using a string array (slower than list) takes ~15mins
i tried using list with the code below takes ~10 mins
that wont cut it :S i need something faster.
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I'm trying to write code that allows a search for a particular record in a data table. The table, imported from an access database has 4 columns, the first being names of cities. I need to search for a particular city and have it display the city name and the other three columns of data for that row in particular text boxes. Here is my code...it is the last sub routine that is the problem...I'm tying myself in noob-ish knots trying to figure out nested loops etc to search... (I've commented some of it out whilst I tried to figure it out but I'm running out of time and patience and my knowledge of VB is limited!!)
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I have 2 groups, the information i get comes out as follows.
Dim group1 As String = "3 4 7 8 10"
Dim group2 As String = "0 1 2 5 9"
The placements are predetermined, so when the first perso
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Searching for data in Access then showing output with VB 2008
View 6 RepliesI need to be able to know how to search a text file in VB for a particular line and then display it. the files I'm trying to use are set up as: ID, Name, Address, Birthday, Pay-Roll TypeSo I need to know how to search the file for the ID number and then display the rest of that lin
View 1 RepliesIn the past, I have learned by reading three or four other people's coding and once I gained understanding of how it worked, I could easily write my coding. I've got I will say this is a school project, so I don't expect anyone to just throw coding at me. I'd like to actually learn this stuff! Also, I HAVE read my book (over and over) and also requested help from the instructor, but as I'd like to meet the deadline on this project, I'm having problems waiting on his availability or lack thereof.
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I got a problem I need to search by First Name OR Surname. So the user can enter one or the other or BOTH.
So here's what I got I set two primary keys to try and find the row but I'm gettin all sorts of problems, for example when I set FirstName & Surname as primary key which you need to do to use the find method i get an error as it expects two values..
Dim da As New SqlDataAdapter
Dim con As New SqlConnection("Data Source=UserSQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=StudentTeacherDB;Integrated Security=True")
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Refer to Microsoft visual basic 2008 Step by Step. Author: Michael Halvorson. Chapter 8. Debug the Debug Test Program.Line 15. On the Debug Menu, Point to Windows, and then click Autos, but I cannot find this command, I can find only:
View 2 Repliesthe statement Dim state(49) As String and maintain a list of certain states. The list of states should always be in alphabetical order and occupy consecutive elements of the array. The buttons in the program should give the user the following options: (a) Take the state specified by the user in a text box and insert it into its proper position in the array. If the state is already in the array, so report. (b) Take the state specified by the user in a text box and delete it from the array. If the state is not in the array, so report. (c) Display the states in the array. "
Private Sub states_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
state(0) = "Alabama"
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