oledb idiocy

[Andrew Bullock]

Hi,
I'm really struggling to find out how to perform a simple sql query on
my jet4 database, and get the results returned into something i can
easilly iterate over.

Every example i find tells me to use a datagrid, and i dont want to!!!!

In vb 6 it was easy peasy:

Dim sqlGeneric as Recordset
Set sqlGeneric = New Recordset
sqlGeneric.CursorType = adOpenStatic
sqlGeneric.LockType = adLockOptimistic
sqlGeneric.Open strSQL, "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source="
& strDBPath & ";Persist Security Info=False"

I could then easilly use .fields(x) and .movenext to loop trough my results!

How do i do this in VB .net 2 2005?


Thanks
Andrew

[Larry Lard]

Andrew Bullock wrote:

Hi,
I'm really struggling to find out how to perform a simple sql query on
my jet4 database, and get the results returned into something i can
easilly iterate over.

Every example i find tells me to use a datagrid, and i dont want to!!!!

In vb 6 it was easy peasy:

Dim sqlGeneric as Recordset
Set sqlGeneric = New Recordset
sqlGeneric.CursorType = adOpenStatic
sqlGeneric.LockType = adLockOptimistic
sqlGeneric.Open strSQL, "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source="
& strDBPath & ";Persist Security Info=False"

I could then easilly use .fields(x) and .movenext to loop trough my results!

How do i do this in VB .net 2 2005?

Dim sDBPath As String = "C:\whatever.mdb"
Dim dc As New OleDbConnection _
("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" & _
sDBPath & ";Persist Security Info=False")
Dim dcmd As New OleDbCommand("SELECT * FROM MyTable", dc)
Dim dr As OleDbDataReader = dcmd.ExecuteReader

Do While dr.Read
'now access dr.GetValue(0...)
'or dr.GetInt<Type>(0...)
'or whatever
Loop

dr.Close() 'do not forget this

--
Larry Lard
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