Having a bit of troble with this one.Breif outline, Im making a website automation program for my business that will download CSV orders for me without logging into the website manually.
Im on a page that has an "order from" date field and an "order to" date field. Both these fields are in dd/MM/yyyy format.I would like my form to be a one click thing so i just click the download orders button and it logs in and gets the order from the date i have set. The trouble is the "order from" field wont take "todays date" It has to be set as the day before.
I am traying to use the DateTimePicker to extract days diff from a date selected on DateTimePicker1 to a date selected on DateTimePicker2. I have no problem substracting the daydiff in numbers of days. The problem I have is that I need the DateTimePicker to tell me how many of those days are weekends (friday, saturday) and how many are weekdays.
I'm so glad I found this forum. I have been trying for days to connect VB.NET Express to SQLExpress using a very simple, one-table database just for testing with no luck. Then I found this forum and the FAQ and used the template for binding a VB Form to SQL and with a few slight modifications and had success.
I'm connecting using the default instance of SQL (no user instance) and after substituting the the "user Id=" and "password=" section of the connection string with "Integrated Security=SSPI" I was finally able to get data returned from SQL server into VB in a Grid Control.
Now for my question. It's a general thing. Yes, I got that to work but in a complete database scenario, would the connection to the database be done in a Public Sub and left open throughout the duration of the GUI interface (passing in the user ID and password as needed) ..until the user logs off? In other words, the template example closes the connecttion immediately after retrieving the data from the database - and I realize this is an example of simply connecting. So, What is the usual scenario (in the real world for connecting and keeping that connection open for the duration of a user session. Where in the VB app should the connection string really be placed and the connection.(close) be placed?I'm not looking for an extremely detailed answer, just an "in general" scenario.I tend to dive in head first and so, I truly look for answers elsewhere before posting a question but haven't really found an answer to this exact question.
I have several programs I have written for my music studio/production company. Many dealing with inventory, customer DB etc. All of my programs are in VB6 and I have started to convert them all to VB.NET. I am getting proficient with VB.NET and connecting to DB using the very simple and generic connection strings, Example:
I'm setting up a home database. I'm using sqlexpress. I want to use a vb.net programme to manage the database and currently added the database to my data sources. How would I create data for the tables? ( Tables are already set up )
I'm trying to export a table called material from a sqlexpress 2005 .mdf file called mydatabase to a csv file programatically in vb2008. i was looking at bcp and the shell command to call it, but simply can't get it to work - i'm calling it like so:
Shell("bcp mydatabase..material out 'c: est.txt' -c -T -S .SQLExpress")is there a way to do this without the shell? i would think it would be a little more professional looking for the app as a whole...
Visual Basic Project VB 2010 B2 does not allow you to select the SQL server without specifying a local file attachment while Visual Web Developer VWD 2010 B2 does give you the option to specify either.The Enviroment VB2010 B2, OS VISTA Business, SQL2008 Express SP1 with SQL Server Management Studio.
1) In order to access the SQL server enable the TCP/IP, NamedPipes and SQLbrowser on the SQL Server.
2) The VB Project requires "imports system.data.sqlclient"
3) Using SQL Server Management Studio or VBcode in the VB Project create a Server DataBase called "dbName"
4) Using SQL Server Management Studio or VBcode in the VB Project create a Server DataTables
5) The following code updates the SQL server DataBase name dbName from the projects DataSet.
Private Sub updateDBase(ByVal dbName As String, ByRef aDS As DataSet) 'CODE to access SQL database directly 'Before an Update sqlCommandBuilder creates
is there any way to attach a sql mdf by filename but actually make the database name something else?
the problem i'm having is that my connection string attaches the database just fine, but it gives the database a name of it's full path on the hard drive when i pull it up in SSMSE. ie. "c:program filesmy programmy database.mdf" is shown as the name when i do a sqlcmd and issue a select name from sys.databases
the snag is being hit due to the fact that i'm trying to do a "bcp in" and because a: there are spaces in the database name, and b: there's the .mdf extension also added to the database name that when i run my bcp in command it errors out, even if i use the -q option of bcp.
if i start SSMSE and right click the database and rename it, bcp works great - so my question is, how do i correctly format my connection string to attach to c:program filesmy programmy database.mdf, yet have it attach the database as "mydatabase" for use in bcp statements?
i've been to connectionstrings.com and they only cover the standard connection strings
in summary - i want to attach an mdf file programmatically and specify the name that ssmse see's it as....
I have created a windows exe project called MyCalculator,I have added setup deployment project.I have also added a class project and added a class called Sqlclass, code in this class is stated below
Public Class Sqlclass Public Sub New() Dim myProcess As New Process Dim SqlArguments As String
where to call the above class in deployment project so sql server installed automatically using the above parameter.check the above weather it is correct. After installation will the folder sqlexpress2005 remains?
My app currently uses both SQLExpress and SQLCE, depending on the choice of the user.In my database class I have non query command objects for the CE connection and non query command objects for the express version.
Essentially, this is duplicating code as Parameters.Add etc. has to be repeated on both objects.Is there a way just to add do it once on a common object?
Dim MyConnection As SqlConnection Dim MyCEConnection As SqlCeConnection Dim MyNQCommand As SqlCommand Dim MyCENQCommand As SqlCeCommand
I'm currently designing a client application that connects to a SQL Server 2005 database. My app is being used to display data, allows users to run reports and stats on the data. It is being developed using VB2008. Within my VB2008 project, the connection string to the DB is made via SQLEXPRESS.
The road block that I'm running into right now is that it only allows me to connect to a local DB file (.mdf) only. I tried to connect to a different DB file on a server within the same network domain, and it generated the following error:
"The file "U:Data.mdf" is on a network path that is not supported for database files. An attempt to attach an auto-named database for file U:Data.mdf failed. A database with the same name exists, or specified file cannot be opened, or it is located on UNC share." (where U: is a mapped network drive).
The intention is to have the DB reside on a server, where there is another application that runs as a service to collect the data and then populates this DB. Then my app would just connect to the database, and allows users to run reports based on the data in the DB.
I heard that this is the limitation of SQLEXPRESS: it will not allow connection to a remote database. This is true? If so, is there anyway that I can get around this limitation?
The main reason that I chose SQLEXPRESS in the first place is that because of the licensing issue. The company that I work for do not want to make the users of our software app have to purchase additional license for the full-blown SQL Server Enterprise edition. I also heard that SQL Server Enterprise edition does allow you to connect to a remote DB (.mdf) file.
I am trying to follow an example in the VB 2010 book and the author has set up the local server using a named instance of SQLEXPRESS and uses mixed mode authentication with a sa login and wrox as the password the code is then
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I am using the Express server initially set up for windows authentication (pubs is one of 6 databases on it) but no matter what I seem to try I can not connect
I am trying to display a list of databases contained in sqlexpress, in a listview. my current code reads:
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This will show up as column headers, but I can't get them to show in only one column so that I can have the user select the database that they would like to work with.
Trying to move from an Access MDB file to an SQLExpress(2005) MDF file and getting lots of problems. I have model my MDF file Like my Access MDB file ,same file name,same number of columns, same columns property,same columns name, see out of the 13 columns 8 have default value, I think I am getting a syntax problem when inserting the data into the table, being new to SQL Express I don't know how to write the proper SQl syntax
See my code for inserting and updating (using Access.mdb) which I whoud like transpose to SQL
'// Insert a record into the database for the node. sSql = "INSERT INTO [TreeViewItems] (bRoot, dLastModified, iImageIndex," & _ "iParentID, iSelectedImageIndex, iSort, sName, sFullName) VALUES " & _
Using VS2008 as frontend and MS SOL Server2008 as backend... a database is created in MS SQL Server2008(SQLEXPRESS). Now the problem is i am not being able to to load the database created in MS SQL Server2008(SQLEXPRESS) onto VS.Net 2008...
i have 2 datetimepicker which are startdatedatetimepicker and enddatedatetimepicker.. the start date should not be more than end date..thus i need to check these two date.. here is my code...
I have a date time as a string, eg. "2010-08-02", I'm trying to convert it to UTC with the following code snippet..DateTime.ParseExact("2010-08-02Z", "yyyy-MM-ddZ", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)When I print to the console, I get the following: 8/1/2010 5:00:00 PM.Is there a reason why the date shows up as the date before the date I'm trying to parse? I could just add a day to this to advance to the original day.
I'm fairly new to ASP.NET & VB.I've been asked to take an existing textbox that is automatically filled with the current date and allow the user to either add a "+" or "-" and a number or a spcific number and convert that into a date.I underdstand the basic concept on how to do this, but I'm running into some problems using the proper commands in order for this to work.The Textbox is called txtDate.What I've tried to do is this:
If txtDate = '+' Or '-' Then DateAdd("d", txtDate, today) End If
Here is what the whole thing looks like:
Protected Sub DateEnter_Click(ByVal sender As[code].....
I have an access form that shows a data table. when the form is opened, I want to filter the data in the date column to show only the records that don't have a date entered into the field.
I need a function that would return true if the date provided was a payday or date of next few weeks paydays.Paydays are every 14 days on a Friday (not twice a month).I tried several attempts, but don't have a clue where to start, except that the function needs a reference date to calculate from. [code]
I am attempting to import data in a batch from an Excel Worksheet to a Sql Server database. Everything works except for the one date field in the spreadsheet. The date returned is off by four years from the value in the spreadsheet. Example: The Excel sheet has a date 10/24/2010 14:18, but when I look at the column in my query, the date is 10/23/2006 2:18. This pattern, 4 years and 1 day earlier, is repeated for every row in the worksheet.
The Excel column comes to me as a custom type, formatted m/d/yyyy h:mm. I receive this from an outside vendor and having them change the column is not going to be my simplest solution.
For what it's worth, the relevent part of the query is: