Access A Database Which Is Presently Saved In .cds Format?
Apr 1, 2009
I'm trying to access a database which is presently saved in .cds format (which I believe is a TClientDataSet) from within my programme written in VB.Net. The reason being, is that the programme I am writing uses the same database as another programme. Both programmes will never being running at the same time, and it is a read-only operation so I could potentially duplicate the database and convert the database to an SQL-compatible format, but obviously this isn't a tidy solution.Is there anyway that I can directly read data from the .cds file with VB.Net? It seems like this would be something that is not too complex and wouldn't be too different from just reading a .csv file.
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Jul 16, 2011
it's just for a program registration. i would store all of the registration codes in the access database, then export it to XML, then upload it to my web host. I would then somehow connect it to my Visual Basics login form (Which I have already made). If this can't be done, having them register through the form and having all the allowed codes on the internet (So i can easily edit them)!
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Sep 19, 2010
I have a very large Access database and the code which try to edit a record is below
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Jul 27, 2010
I'm using this code to update my access database.
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If i run the program in debugmode and then do a update it will be saved to the database.(must stop and run again to see the update. How to se the update directly?)
My main problem is that if a build the program and run it outside VS then update never being saved. How can i solve this. I tried using "commit"(maybe totaly wrong) but that didnt work.
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Jan 31, 2012
I'm having a problem that I've spent all day researching to try and figure out. It seems that the 'Attachment' type in an Access 2007 DB file is stored as three seperate pieces of data in the one field. If you open up the Relationships view, you can see it in the table itself.
I'm trying to do a simple DVD movie database to keep track of everything I have, and who I've loaned things out to. I'm doing this in part to further my education in VB.NET and to figure out some of the things involved with interacting with databases. I haven't actually written any code yet, read on and you'll understand what's going on.
I've got an Attachment field setup in the database to hold a picture of the movie poster or DVD cover art or something like that to help identify the film, and I named it 'Art' of type 'Attachment' since that will hold an image. Looking at the table in Access I see that 'Art' is broken down into three entries: Art.FileData, Art.FileName, Art.FileType. I'd like to be able to pull the filename and file type and display those on the form, but we'll get to that later.
When I use a drag-n-drop gridview of the database into my blank VB form, the Art field just shows the filename, in my case it's 'screenshot.png' since I just dumped a screen shot in as a test. So, the gridview on the form will see the field and display the filename, which is fine. If I do another Windows form and drag-n-drop a Details View (instead of the grid view), and have the Art field in the table set to a PictureBox (in the Data Sources view, you can highlight a field and then designate it as text or picture
or date or whatever), I end up with a blank box instead of my image.
I haven't typed any code into any of the forms at this point. I'm still in the Designer trying to get the layout and stuff the way I want it, afterwhich I'll start adding buttons and methods and such to search for things, print out a nice list of the films in the database (with and without pictures) and be able to sort out a list of who I've loaned things to (like an overdue book list). But so far, by just dragging and dropping from the Data Sources into the form, Studio automatically creates the dataset and bindings and such to read from the database file, and I can see all of my test data *except* for the image in the PictureBox (it's just blank/empty).
So, if you want to see what's happening and sort this out, then you need to do the following:
1. Create an access database with a table, that table having at least one field of type 'Attachment'
2. put a picture/image into that field as a first entry
3. in Studio (or in my case Express), create a new project, which'll have a blank form in it by default
4. create your database connection by using the 'Add new data source...' wizard for your Access DB file
5. from the Data Sources, expand the table views and change the attachemnt field from the default of TextBox to a PictureBox (you may have to Customize the types to get PictureBox to show up)
6. drag and drop that whole table onto your form, which will automatically create form elements to display the data and stuff
7. Run it, you'll see the problem.
I have no idea what I need to look at or edit or change to get this PictureBox to display the image from the database. Like I said before, if I leave the type set to the default of TextBox in the Data Sources view, then the field will display the filename of the file stored in that field of the database. Having not typed any code yet, I have nothing that I've done that I can edit other than the automatically created stuff that Studio did when I dragged the table into the form.
Being completely unfamiliar with how VB.NET wants to talk to a database (SQL server, Access or otherwise) I decided to create this little program to learn how to do it. But I ran into this problem and need a little help. What I'm looking for is what I need to change in the bindingSource or TableAdapter or TableAdapterManager or BindingsNavigator or whatever resource is binding the fields on the form to the entries in the database so that the PictureBox will get the part of my 'Art' field that actually
holds the image, not the filename or the type. I don't know how to do that, and that's what I'm trying to learn. What I would like to know is how to both get the image to display in the PicutreBox and pull the filename for that image as well to display beneath it or something in the form.
And before someone starts complaining about writing the whole program for me, I must say this is one element of a large personal project and if you read my entire post here you'll see that there are many other elements that will eventually go with it. I just need some help getting this one thing to work. Multiple web searches and such point to a variety of different approaches, many of
which I've tried to implement but nothing has worked. I'd like to do this entirely in .NET with no other dependencies if at all possible, but some of what I've seen so far today suggests using Interop and other things to make this work, but those haven't panned out for me either as of yet. My ultimate goal with this whole program is to have one (albeit probably large) executable file that will encompass the entire program, and to have it all work. After that, then I'll look into things like creating my own modules
and DLL's and such to thin it out, but I'm not even close to that point yet.
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Nov 3, 2009
I created access database while runtime. Now I want to know how to set a time format in that created date/time field. I need to set as Short time for that field.
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Dec 2, 2011
I have Attactments in a old access Database table that I need to show to the user in VB.net. After doing everything we can think of we been looking for days and found this and starting putting it back togerther.
But at this point it is telling me {"Unrecognized database format 'F:\CLSINC\WORD\CLS programmer\CLS Helpdesk.accdb'."} db = dbEngine.OpenDatabase("F:\CLSINC\WORD\CLS programmer\CLS Helpdesk.accdb", False, False, "")
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Mar 3, 2010
I've recently made another question about connecting to MS-ACCESS database with .NET in C# or VB.NET. It worked just as intended with MDB, but with accdb it caused an exception in
conn.Open();which follows:
Is there another way to do this? My original intention (like stated in the original question) is gathering some (actually, a lot of) fields.
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May 18, 2011
i'm writing a simple program that outputs a report to a text file with code similar to below PrintLine(1, "Hello", "World") my question is how to format the text so it can be saved as courier new or bold? frustrated visual basic user
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Jun 27, 2012
i Have Used Database file for storing Data in my Application.Now I want to take backup of data in Access, Excel or in Any other Format.
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Oct 21, 2009
I am trying to alter a column in an Access database in VB2008 from date to text format using the SQL string as follows "ALTER TABLE receipts ALTER COLUMN Date CHAR(10)"but whether I Use TEXT, CHAR, VARCHAR or STRING, I get a Syntax Error when I run ExecuteNonQuery.
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Aug 26, 2010
How can I printscreen my screen that can be saved in gif or jpeg format locally in VB.net
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Jan 15, 2010
i use ar-SA culture in my app and the date appeared correctly then i save this date to db and i look at the db i found it in English format how to save in the format like it was appeared in my form ?
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Jan 26, 2009
I have a form in vb.net 2005 with a datagrid and picturebox, when I click an item in the datagrid dgProducts I want to display the Picture which is stored in an access database in binary format inside the picturebox pbProduct. This is the code I have inside the datagrid click:
pbProduct.Image = Nothing
Dim x As Integer = dgProducts.CurrentRowIndex
Dim dt As DataTable
Dim drow As DataRow
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I have imported the system.io and system.data.oledb at class level and I hav generated this code from what I can find in forums online, but I get "Parameter is not valid" and no more help than that...
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Oct 29, 2010
This is probably a pretty novice design question. I'm trying to work my way through a number of requirements and give the users the experience they're looking for.I've written a tool that does big calcluation-type things. It currently consists of a class library and command line tool (separate .NET projects.) We're using an Access database format as the file type because it can keep all the various tables together in one file. A few other items about the application: There are not many users. There are no concerns with scalability. There are not great concerns with updates. Desktop is desired. Not web.Using VB and .NET 3.5 SP1
I now need to develop a GUI front end that will allow typical File/Open and File/Save type operations.Users expect that they can open a file, edit it some, then either choose to save it or close it unsaved without any changes being written back to the file. Saving it would obviously save all changes affecting all tables back to the file.
Does it then make sense to use a temp file for something like a proxy then? To, when a user "opens" a file, copy the source Access file to a local temp file and then use that for the editing session? Then, if the user "saves", copy the local temp file back to the source path?
Update: [tagged with ms-access tag too] Also, I omitted the fact that users would expect typical File / Save As functionality too. I think the design I've put in question in this post is what is traditionally called the Proxy design pattern. Has anyone tried this (successfully!) with Access database files before? Words of caution or advice?
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Mar 20, 2012
I'm having a problem setting the maximum number of records that can be saved into Access. The maximum allowance is to be 10. Records are being pulled from a listbox. The whole problem is that if the listbox has 7 items and my table already has 5 records, it still records them, making a total of 12. What I'm looking for is a way to trap that to a max of 10.[code]...
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Dec 13, 2011
i am trying to develop a project for my academics...i.e, windows application s/w... how to get the thumbnail view(in win7 taskbar shows in that manner?) of all applications that are appearing on taskbar with code in vb ..
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Mar 7, 2012
How to add and view in the listview the saved item in ms access?
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Jun 12, 2011
I 'm trying to develop a database whereby all information input via vb 2008 will be saved into a microsoft access database. I've tried to populate a few information. The data was saved at that point, but when i reopen my system the next day, all the rows are gone. [code]
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Jul 10, 2010
I have been searching the Forums for a solution to my problem, but I can't find anything that relates to my specific situation. All of the postings regarding not being able to save changes to a database have had to do with a datagridview. On forms that I do have a datagridview, my changes are saved.But I have a form with textboxes, comboboxes, and pictureboxes bound to a bindingsource,
Private Sub Back_Button_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Back_Button.Click
Try
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Dec 22, 2009
Using VB 2008 Express, I've constructed a simple database type app for saving contacts. The table data I save at design time is always saved correctly but data entered at run time seems to get saved even after closing the app and VB. However, after restarting the computer, the newly entered data is usually gone. Why would this be? I've seen a few video tutorials on creating simple database apps and did everything they did and am getting the same problem. I thought it was a configuration problem so I actually re-installed Windows and VB 2008 Express (as well as 2010 Beta 2). I have noticed that in the database explorer, the .mdf file has a red x to the bottom right of the yellow database icon and when I click the + it seems to turn into a black plug. Is this normal?
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May 5, 2012
so i added a service based database in my visual basic project. At this time the project only exists of logging in or registering, after which you'll log in.now all my SQL seems to be correct and working, the code is good, but when i register new user, it doesn't get stored in the database. but it does get stored...
i know sounds weird right, well what i mean is that apparently the data is getting stored somewhere because i check whether or not the username exists already. if it does i get a message box. Now the weird thing is that between builds and runs it remembers all the users i registered, but when i close the program and later re-open it, all the data is gone...
i used parameters to insert the date, everything from code below:
Private Sub btnLogin_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnLogin.Click
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Dec 22, 2009
I am using ASP.NET 2.0 with SQL Server 2005.
My page have a text box where TextMode="MultiLine"......see below
Now when I save this text in my database of course it does not save it with any HTML tags, and thus when i read that value from the database it comes back as 1 line such as....
But I want it to be dispayed just like the user typed it. Is there no out of box control that will do this for me rather than me using Ajax or jQuery?
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Mar 5, 2011
I'm saving sometimes 1 entry into the database and sometimes 10 or more. I want to remove the rows from the DGV as their added to the database. There's no reason to keep them there. [code]...
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Feb 2, 2009
I have this 4 tables. My problem is I have to save the treeNodes in the 4 tables. How can I determine that a specific treenode will be save in one specific table?
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Jan 17, 2011
I have datagridview in which 2 & 3 rd columns are Combo Box. I have saved the data to the database from datagridview. But while retrive if i assign datatgridview.datasource= mydatatable.It addes new coulm show the values. for my combobox columns it shows the value member values. If change the datagridview.autogeneratecolumns =false
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Apr 30, 2012
am currently having a problem saving any changes i make in my form here is my codes for each button: -Private Sub btnUpdateExistingRecord_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnUpdateExistingRecord.Click 'This code makes sure that all fields in the members table are updated when the button is pressed. This is needed so 'the changes in the Members table are saved currectly in the database.
Dim CommandBuilder As New OleDb.OleDbCommandBuilder(DataAdapte
DataSet.Tables("Members").Rows(Include).Item(0) = txtMemberID.Text
DataSet.Tables("Members").Rows(Include).Item(1) = txtFirstName.Text[code]......
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Mar 24, 2009
StudentId Marks obtain class
1001 76 NINE
1002 75 NINE
1003 55 NINE
1004 62 NINE
1005 38 EIGHT
1006 56 EIGHT
1007 31 EIGHT
1008 57 NINE
1009 48 EIGHT
1010 55 NINE
1011 49 NINE
1012 49 EIGHT
1013 27 NINE
1014 31 NINE
1015 48 NINE
1016 58 NINE
1017 31 NINE
1018 36 NINE
This is my database now I want to calculate rank from above this. I call this through procedure. If I select id 1001 then it will display the rank from the above data base. If I select 1007 then it must display rank to class eight.
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May 12, 2009
I have tried to test out the add delete and save function on a datagridview but the data that I added during testing would disappear after I made some changes to the code.
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Dec 25, 2009
I have a datagridview with contacts on a form with clients. The underlying table for contacts has a field for Contactnumber. This is a identity column so its new number is generated by SQL Server.
I add a row and when I move to the next record on the form, the form �nd the information in the datagrid is saved to the database. So far, so good. The problem is: when I move back and try to delete that newly made row I get an error about concurrency.
It's logical actually, the record is saved, but the dataset of the datagrid doesn't yet know what the new contactnumber is. Apparently it's not information that it gets back automatically from SQL Server.
How can I make the dataset know the new identity of the row that is saved to the database? I use a simple da.Update(dsVerwijderingen, Tabelnaam) to save the changes to the database.
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