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Looking for the most painless non-RDBMS storage method in C#

I'm writing a simple program that will run entirely client-side. (Desktop programming? do people still do that?) and I need a simple way to store trivial amounts of data in a structured form, but really don't see any need to use a database system. What's more, some of the data needs to be serialized and passed around to different users,...

Single Query returning me 4 tables, How to get all of them back into dataset ?

How to fill multiple tables in a dataset. I m using a query that returns me four tables. At the frontend I am trying to fill all the four resultant table into dataset. Here is my Query. Query is not complete. But it is just a refrence for my Ques Select * from tblxyz compute sum(col1) suppose this query returns more than one table...

Problem using Binding Source with Relations in C#

Hi All, I am creating a C# winform in DOt Net 3.5, I have a datagridview control & a few Other Controls (2 Textbox). In my DataSet there are two tables MasterParent(Code) ,MasterDetail(ParentCode). Both are related by a FkRelation. Code is an AutoIncrementing Column. I Create a binding source (b1) & set Mastertable as a DataSource to i...

Casting complex object into a dataset?

This is the object class I'm trying to turn into a dataset: public class BookStore { private List<Book> booksList; } public class Book { private string name; private string imageurl; private string subject; private string author; private int level; private int year; private int rating; private List<s...

Return top 5 records of a table in a dataset.

I want to return the top 5 records of a table in a dataset for datagrid view. The following does not work. DataGridView.DataSource = DS.Tables("TABLENAME").Select("SELECT TOP 5") Any suggestions? Using Visual Studio 2008 - VB.Net ...

reset the data in the table of data set in c#.net

im populating the data in the combo box using dataset tables...with some table name..now i want to clear those entries or data populated in the combobox every time when the button is clicked...so that new entries can be done.... is there any way to clear the comobo box values?? ...

dictionary interface for large data sets

I have a set of key/values (all text) that is too large to load in memory at once. I would like to interact with this data via a Python dictionary-like interface. Does such a module already exist? Reading key values should be efficient and values compressed on disk to save space. Edit: Ideally cross platform, but only using Linux ...

Where can I download a free, text-rich dataset?

I want to do a bit of lightweight testing and bench-marking for full-text search, so the dataset should have the qualities: 10,000 - 100,000 records. good dispersion of English words. In CSV or Excel format--i.e. I don't want to access it via API. Something like books or movies with title and description fields would be perfect. I b...

Handle ConstraintException and get ColumnName that cause the error

Hello, I have a Table Machines that made of: ID = Identity , Primary , AutoIncrement,NOT NULL SN = Unique , String , NOT NULL Name =String now I am using a form to insert data into this table, and I am using BindingSource and ErrorProvider, I am handling Null and Empty string in the DataSet layer (partial class in the dataset.xsd), no...

VB.net Dataset display different column

Hello, I am sure this has to a comon thing I just can't find it. I am making a combobox from my data source. Basically, This is a projects form and the user needs to select the the primary contact which is contrained by the customer id (GETbyCustomerID) set in another field. I have it working... mostly except the combobox only displays...

how to retrieve informatin from deleted row

How can I retrie infromation from delete rows. I delete some rows from table in dataset, then I use method GetChanges(DataRowState.Deleted) to get deleted rows. I try delete rows in original table on server side, but it finished with this errors. System.Data.DeletedRowInaccessibleException: Deleted row information cannot be accessed thr...

Strongly Typed DataSet column requires custom type to implement IXmlSerializable?

I have a strongly typed Dataset with a single table with three columns. These columns all contain custom types. DataColumn1 is of type Parent DataColumn2 is of type Child1 DataColumn3 is of type Child2 Here is what these classes look like: [Serializable] [XmlInclude(typeof(Child1)), XmlInclude(typeof(Child2))] public abstract c...

How to connect an existing strongly-typed data set to a different server at run time?

I am coding a simple space empire management game in Visual C# 2008, which relies on connecting to a remote SQL server database to get/store data. I would like the user to be able to connect to a user-specified SQL server from the login screen(he specifies IP address, port, database name, ID, password and presses "connect" button). How...

How to populate a listview in ASP.NET 3.5 through a dataset?

Is it possible to populate a listview with a dataset? I have a function that returns a dataset. Why im asking this is because my SQL is quite complicated and i can't convert it to a SQLDataSource... Public Function getMessages() As DataSet Dim dSet As DataSet = New DataSet Dim da As SqlDataAdapter Dim cmd As SqlCommand D...

Why can't I see the 'dataset project' property in Visual Studio DataSet designer?

Hi, I am trying to follow 'n tier app design' tutorials and they tell me to set the DataSet Project property from the Data Set Designer in VS, to split table adaptors and entities into seprate projects. I can't see that property! (I'm looking in the same place shown on the videos... all other properties match) Does anybody know why? ...

Tools for listing database accesses from .NET code

I've been handed a C# codebase that uses a SQL Server 2005 database. I would like to have an overview which database tables and procedures are accessed by which method bodies in the code; in the case of tables, I would also like to know the type of access (CREATE, DROP, SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE). String searching for these keyw...

Read multiple tables from dataset in Powershell

I am using a function that collects data from a SQL server: function Invoke-SQLCommand { param( [string] $dataSource = "myserver", [string] $dbName = "mydatabase", [string] $sqlCommand = $(throw "Please specify a query.") ) $SqlConnection = New-Object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection $SqlConnection.ConnectionString = "Server=...

Getting data from array of DataSet objects returned from web service

I have a web service that I want to access when it is added as a web reference to my C# project. A particular method in the web service takes a SQL query string and returns the results of the query as a custom type. When I add the web service reference, the method shows up as returning DataSet[] instead of the custom type. This is fin...

Convert XML to DataSet with rows

Hi, I have an xml file like this: <result> <customer> <id>1</id> <name>A</name> </customer> <customer> <id>2</id> <name>B</name> </customer> </result> So I need that data filled on a DataSet, here is my code: var reader = new StringReader(xmldoc.InnerXml); dsDatos.ReadXml(reader); The problem is that i...

Returning a DTO vs DataTable from the DAL

Is it fine to have the DAL return a DTO type from the Domain model vs just returning a DataTable? Isn't is looser to have your DAL functions return DataTables/DataSets and have your BLL map the data to business objects? ...