database

I am having a problem and I'm pretty sure it is me missing something somewhere. I have set up a project in VS2008 and for most of the application I am using the Windows controls and their default behaviour. However, I have started programming in some functionality for the combo boxes that link...

hi, I have an MS Access database and i'm trying to connect to it in vb .net. My question: Is there a way to provide a relative path to a database in the connection string? the problem is that when I move the db and app, the path is no longer valid. I read something about using "|DataDirectory|"...

You often need users to provide some pictures to your application – even if it is not database-driven. Its quite time-consuming task to develop a good functionality for end users – and you leave it at some basical stage (like “press-a-button...

hi guys. i'm just new here at vb.net forums. so this is my first post here. hope this one will be helpful to me and i hope that i can help others too someday. i just graduated from college and i've studied VB6 at school but not that deep. now, i'm currently learning vb.net. i have a company...

Hi All, I am trying to build a user control that will do exactly what the SQL 2005 Connect to Server interface do, eventually create a connection string and store in a app.config file. It should allow user to select server type, server name, authentication, user name and password. It...

Hi if anyone could help I would appreciate it. I have a database with a Movies Table, Casting Table, and Actor Table. Movie Table has MovieID Casting Table has MovieID , and ActorID Actor Table has ActorID This code deletes a row from the movies table(using a datagrid in vb.net), I need all...

Hi everyone i am trying to save the data from the text boxes on my form to my sql database but im not having any luck please can someone help me? ive simply got 4 text boxes and a save button the code for my save button is as follows. Private Sub btnSave_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object...

I am new to VB and downloaded the VB 2008 Express recently. Am following the "Beginning VB2005 databases" book to learn as I go along. I have hit a snag where the book example is initializing a new instance of the data access base class as "Using objData as new WDABase", however the VB 2008...

Guys help me 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?? The format of the treenodes is like this: Cat_tab SubCat_tab SubCat_tab Exp_tab Exp_tab ExpDet_tab Cat_tab...

Hi I am a vb.NET hobbyist from India. I am trying to design a data entry application for my company to deal with customer information. I am able to read and write data from and to a excel database using my vb.NET application. Every row in the database file contains details about a customer. I...

RE: Adding Data Row, where one parameter refrences a parent table. Hi there, I hope this is in the correct place, as I'm new here! Okay, so the problem i'm having is as follows. I have a database (MS Access 2008) and a windows forms applicaltion (VB.NET 2008 SP3.5) Two of the tables are...

Hi, i'm trying to make a database application. It's all working but i'm missing one important function. to search through the database with a simple textbox and button. and then it should move to the found cell. But i haven't been able to figure out how to do that, and i haven't had any success...

Greetings all. Thank you for looking at my post. Please forgive me if I posted this in the wrong area. I am looking for assistance with a homework project in which I am struggling with and very stressed out about. I have spent the last 2 weeks doing a great deal of studying and reading and I am...

hi all im writing some software at the moment, i have a mysql database backing it all and i have a page called "edit items". its basically a datagrid which displays all the rows from the sql database in the products table. now i identified a problem which is that if i leave the "category" area...

Hi Friends, My name is Reece, and I'm still new to Visual Basic. I have decided that I am going to create a program for certain people to log into. I can get the login form to work with a basic code (all i really know) like this one: Private Sub OK_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object...

Hello all.. I have a dataset .. with one datatable.. which i generated by reading a textfile.. Now I want to move this dataset /datatable in to an access database table this table is already built with all constraints in place.. I want to move it as a whole.. as apposed to loopin through the...

I have about 6 applications which are constantly generating data, on average 100 characters of text each second which will go in about 8 different fields of a database. I am still working out the design. Sometimes I will need to add like 50 rows into the database almost at once, sometimes the...

Hi, I would like to create an .exe file that will install my VB .Net application but it uses mySQL database and i also need that to be included in the installation. I dont know how to do this, can anyone help please? I dont know if it will work since you need to add it to the ODBC.. Thanks

Hey guys. Well, I have a DataBase, with a column called PlayerPhoto, it is a varchar(50) type. It saves the location of the photo of the player. Well, in Players.aspx page, I have one table, showing player details (age, country, position, etc | all stored in db), and I want it to show player's...

Well, I asked around here, got a partial answer that really helped out, but I decided to write an official How To on a database driven login form. I'll include the Administration Backend to go along with it soon. Dial-Up users should not use this thread, it is image heavy So, here we go...