ado using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.ADO;
public class MainClass
{
public static void Main ()
{
// set Access connection and select strings
string strAccessConn = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=BugTypes.MDB";
string strAccessSelect = "SELECT * FROM Categories";
//Create the dataset and add the Categories table to it
DataSet myDataSet = new DataSet();
myDataSet.Tables.Add("Categories");
// create my Access objects
ADOConnection myAccessConn = new ADOConnection(strAccessConn);
ADODataSetCommand myAccessDataSetCmd = new ADODataSetCommand();
myAccessDataSetCmd.SelectCommand = new ADOCommand(strAccessSelect,myAccessConn);
try
{
/* A dataSet can contain multiple tables,
so let's get them all into an array */
DataTable[] dta = myDataSet.Tables.All;
foreach (DataTable dt in dta)
{
Console.WriteLine("Found data table {0}", dt.TableName);
}
/* The next two lines show two different ways
you can get the count of tables in a dataset */
Console.WriteLine("{0} tables in data set", myDataSet.Tables.Count);
Console.WriteLine("{0} tables in data set", dta.Length);
/* The next several lines show how to get information
on a specific table by name from the dataset */
Console.WriteLine("{0} rows in Categories table", myDataSet.Tables["Categories"].Rows.Count);
/* The column info is automatically fetched from the
database, so we can read it here */
Console.WriteLine("{0} columns in Categories table", myDataSet.Tables["Categories"].Columns.Count);
DataColumn[] drc = myDataSet.Tables["Categories"].Columns.All;
int i = 0;
foreach (DataColumn dc in drc)
{
/* Print the column subscript, then the
column's name and its data type */
Console.WriteLine("Column name[{0}] is {1}, of type {2}",i++ , dc.ColumnName, dc.DataType);
}
DataRow[] dra = myDataSet.Tables["Categories"].Rows.All;
foreach (DataRow dr in dra)
{
/* Print the CategoryID as a subscript,
then the CategoryName */
Console.WriteLine("CategoryName[{0}] is {1}", dr[0], dr[1]);
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine("Oooops. Caught an exception:\n{0}", e.Message);
}
}
}