A VB .NET Database Project

 

This is the Visual Studio .NET version of the database Wizard tutorial. If you have the Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition, you need to start here (It's a different process in your version):

Visual Basic 2005 Express database Wizard Tutorial

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Visual Studio .NET and the Data Form Wizard

Before you start the tutorial, download the database you need:

Download the Microsoft Access Database you need for these tutorials

 

VB.Net allows you many ways to connect to a database or a data source. The technology used to interact with a database or data source is called ADO.NET. The ADO parts stands for Active Data Objects which, admittedly, doesn’t explain much. But just like System was a Base Class (leader of a hierarchy, if you like), so is ADO. Forming the foundation of the ADO Base Class are five other major objects:

Connection
Command
DataReader
DataSet
DataAdapter

We’ll see just what these objects are, and how to use them, as we go along. But we can make a start on the ADO.NET trail by creating a simple Address Book project. All we’ll do is see how to use ADO to open up the database you downloaded, and scroll through each entry.

What we’re going to be doing is to use a Wizard to create a programme that reads the database and allows us to scroll through it. The wizard will create a Form for us, and allow us to add buttons to the form so that the data can be edited, updated, and deleted.

This is the form we're going to design:

 

To make a start on the database project, click the link below.

 

Start your .NET Database project -- >

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