Save, Delete, Search And Update Records in

ADO.NET
Introduction
In this article I am performing simple operations like save, delete, update and
search operations in a Windows Forms application. At first we should have a
Database. So create a database. In this example my database name is "STUDENT"
and database table is "student_detail" which has four columns as "roll_no",
"s_name", "age" and "course".
Create a Windows Forms Application. Take some UI controls.

Now we write code to perform the operations described in this article.

Code for Saving Record
conn = new SqlConnection(connstring);
conn.Open();
comm = new SqlCommand("insert into student_detail values(" + txtrn.Text + ",'" +
txtname.Text + "'," + txtage.Text + ",'" + txtcourse.Text + "')", conn);
try
{
comm.ExecuteNonQuery();
MessageBox.Show("Saved...");
}
catch (Exception)
{
MessageBox.Show("Not Saved");
}
finally
{
conn.Close();
}
Look at the above code. In the first line of code, an instance of a SqlConnection is
created. In the next, an instance of a SqlCommand class is created and a SQL

statement for inserting values into the database table is specified. Then I am calling
the ExecuteNonQuery() method in a try block. In the finally block I am closing the
SqlConnection by the Close() method. The same as writing SQL Statements for
performing various operations. Look at the following code for performing all the
operations.
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System;
System.Collections.Generic;
System.ComponentModel;
System.Data;
System.Drawing;
System.Linq;
System.Text;
System.Windows.Forms;
System.Data.SqlClient;

namespace savedeleteupdateapp
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
SqlConnection conn;
SqlCommand comm;
SqlDataReader dreader;
string connstring =
"server=localhost;database=student;user=sa;password=wintellect";
private void btnsave_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
conn = new SqlConnection(connstring);
conn.Open();
comm = new SqlCommand("insert into student_detail values(" + txtrn.Text
+ ",'" + txtname.Text + "'," + txtage.Text + ",'" + txtcourse.Text + "')", conn);
try
{
comm.ExecuteNonQuery();
MessageBox.Show("Saved...");
}
catch (Exception)
{
MessageBox.Show("Not Saved");
}
finally
{
conn.Close();
}
}
private void btnclear_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
txtage.Clear();
txtcourse.Clear();
txtname.Clear();
txtrn.Clear();
txtrn.Focus();

}
private void btndelete_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
conn = new SqlConnection(connstring);
conn.Open();
comm = new SqlCommand("delete from student_detail where roll_no = " +
txtrn.Text + " ", conn);
try
{
comm.ExecuteNonQuery();
MessageBox.Show("Deleted...");
txtage.Clear();
txtcourse.Clear();
txtname.Clear();
txtrn.Clear();
txtrn.Focus();
}
catch (Exception x)
{
MessageBox.Show(" Not Deleted" + x.Message );
}
finally
{
conn.Close();
}
}
private void btnsearch_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
conn = new SqlConnection(connstring);
conn.Open();
comm = new SqlCommand("select * from student_detail where roll_no = "
+ txtrn.Text + " ", conn);
try
{
dreader = comm.ExecuteReader();
if (dreader.Read())
{
txtname.Text = dreader[1].ToString();
txtage.Text = dreader[2].ToString();
txtcourse.Text = dreader[3].ToString();
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show(" No Record");
}
dreader.Close();
}
catch (Exception)
{
MessageBox.Show(" No Record");
}
finally
{
conn.Close();
}

}
private void btnupdate_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
conn = new SqlConnection(connstring);
conn.Open();
comm = new SqlCommand("update student_detail set s_name=
'"+txtname.Text+"', age= "+txtage.Text+" , course=' "+txtcourse.Text+"' where
roll_no =
"+txtrn.Text+" ", conn);
try
{
comm.ExecuteNonQuery();
MessageBox.Show("Updated..");
}
catch (Exception)
{
MessageBox.Show(" Not Updated");
}
finally
{
conn.Close();
}
}
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
txtrn.Focus();
}
}

Now run the application. You can Save, Search, Delete and Update records.
Summary
In this article you learned how to save, delete, search and update records in
ADO.NET. I hope it will be helpful for beginners.