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C# Not saving data in MS Access Database [duplicate]

I have following C# code in a console application.
Whenever I debug the application and run the query1 (which inserts a new value into the database) and then run query2 (which displays all the entries in the database), I can see the new entry I inserted clearly. However, when I close the application and check the table in the database (in Visual Studio), it is gone. I have no idea why it is not saving.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data.Entity;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Data.SqlServerCe;
using System.Data;
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
try
{
string fileName = "FlowerShop.sdf";
string fileLocation = "|DataDirectory|\\";
DatabaseAccess dbAccess = new DatabaseAccess();
dbAccess.Connect(fileName, fileLocation);
Console.WriteLine("Connected to the following database:\n"+fileLocation + fileName+"\n");
string query = "Insert into Products(Name, UnitPrice, UnitsInStock) values('NewItem', 500, 90)";
string res = dbAccess.ExecuteQuery(query);
Console.WriteLine(res);
string query2 = "Select * from Products";
string res2 = dbAccess.QueryData(query2);
Console.WriteLine(res2);
Console.ReadLine();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine(e);
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}
class DatabaseAccess
{
private SqlCeConnection _connection;
public void Connect(string fileName, string fileLocation)
{
Connect(#"Data Source=" + fileLocation + fileName);
}
public void Connect(string connectionString)
{
_connection = new SqlCeConnection(connectionString);
}
public string QueryData(string query)
{
_connection.Open();
using (SqlCeDataAdapter da = new SqlCeDataAdapter(query, _connection))
using (DataSet ds = new DataSet("Data Set"))
{
da.Fill(ds);
_connection.Close();
return ds.Tables[0].ToReadableString(); // a extension method I created
}
}
public string ExecuteQuery(string query)
{
_connection.Open();
using (SqlCeCommand c = new SqlCeCommand(query, _connection))
{
int r = c.ExecuteNonQuery();
_connection.Close();
return r.ToString();
}
}
}
EDIT: Forgot to mention that I am using SQL Server Compact Edition 4 and VS2012 Express.

It is a quite common problem. You use the |DataDirectory| substitution string. This means that, while debugging your app in the Visual Studio environment, the database used by your application is located in the subfolder BIN\DEBUG folder (or x86 variant) of your project. And this works well as you don't have any kind of error connecting to the database and making update operations.
But then, you exit the debug session and you look at your database through the Visual Studio Server Explorer (or any other suitable tool). This window has a different connection string (probably pointing to the copy of your database in the project folder). You search your tables and you don't see the changes.
Then the problem get worse. You restart VS to go hunting for the bug in your app, but you have your database file listed between your project files and the property Copy to Output directory is set to Copy Always. At this point Visual Studio obliges and copies the original database file from the project folder to the output folder (BIN\DEBUG) and thus your previous changes are lost.
Now, your application inserts/updates again the target table, you again can't find any error in your code and restart the loop again until you decide to post or search on StackOverflow.
You could stop this problem by clicking on the database file listed in your Solution Explorer and changing the property Copy To Output Directory to Copy If Newer or Never Copy. Also you could update your connectionstring in the Server Explorer to look at the working copy of your database or create a second connection. The first one still points to the database in the project folder while the second one points to the database in the BIN\DEBUG folder. In this way you could keep the original database ready for deployment purposes and schema changes, while, with the second connection you could look at the effective results of your coding efforts.
EDIT Special warning for MS-Access database users. The simple act of looking at your table changes the modified date of your database ALSO if you don't write or change anything. So the flag Copy if Newer kicks in and the database file is copied to the output directory. With Access better use Copy Never.

Committing changes / saving changes across debug sessions is a familiar topic in SQL CE forums. It is something that trips up quite a few people. I'll post links to source articles below, but I wanted to paste the answer that seems to get the best results to the most people:
You have several options to change this behavior. If your sdf file is part of the content of your project, this will affect how data is persisted. Remember that when you debug, all output of your project (including the sdf) if in the bin/debug folder.
You can decide not to include the sdf file as part of your project and manage the file location runtime.
If you are using "copy if newer", and project changes you make to the database will overwrite any runtime/debug changes.
If you are using "Do not copy", you will have to specify the location in code (as two levels above where your program is running).
If you have "Copy always", any changes made during runtime will always be overwritten
Answer Source
Here is a link to some further discussion and how to documentation.

How to insert data into a local datatable in C#? [duplicate]

I have following C# code in a console application.
Whenever I debug the application and run the query1 (which inserts a new value into the database) and then run query2 (which displays all the entries in the database), I can see the new entry I inserted clearly. However, when I close the application and check the table in the database (in Visual Studio), it is gone. I have no idea why it is not saving.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data.Entity;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Data.SqlServerCe;
using System.Data;
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
try
{
string fileName = "FlowerShop.sdf";
string fileLocation = "|DataDirectory|\\";
DatabaseAccess dbAccess = new DatabaseAccess();
dbAccess.Connect(fileName, fileLocation);
Console.WriteLine("Connected to the following database:\n"+fileLocation + fileName+"\n");
string query = "Insert into Products(Name, UnitPrice, UnitsInStock) values('NewItem', 500, 90)";
string res = dbAccess.ExecuteQuery(query);
Console.WriteLine(res);
string query2 = "Select * from Products";
string res2 = dbAccess.QueryData(query2);
Console.WriteLine(res2);
Console.ReadLine();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine(e);
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}
class DatabaseAccess
{
private SqlCeConnection _connection;
public void Connect(string fileName, string fileLocation)
{
Connect(#"Data Source=" + fileLocation + fileName);
}
public void Connect(string connectionString)
{
_connection = new SqlCeConnection(connectionString);
}
public string QueryData(string query)
{
_connection.Open();
using (SqlCeDataAdapter da = new SqlCeDataAdapter(query, _connection))
using (DataSet ds = new DataSet("Data Set"))
{
da.Fill(ds);
_connection.Close();
return ds.Tables[0].ToReadableString(); // a extension method I created
}
}
public string ExecuteQuery(string query)
{
_connection.Open();
using (SqlCeCommand c = new SqlCeCommand(query, _connection))
{
int r = c.ExecuteNonQuery();
_connection.Close();
return r.ToString();
}
}
}
EDIT: Forgot to mention that I am using SQL Server Compact Edition 4 and VS2012 Express.

It is a quite common problem. You use the |DataDirectory| substitution string. This means that, while debugging your app in the Visual Studio environment, the database used by your application is located in the subfolder BIN\DEBUG folder (or x86 variant) of your project. And this works well as you don't have any kind of error connecting to the database and making update operations.
But then, you exit the debug session and you look at your database through the Visual Studio Server Explorer (or any other suitable tool). This window has a different connection string (probably pointing to the copy of your database in the project folder). You search your tables and you don't see the changes.
Then the problem get worse. You restart VS to go hunting for the bug in your app, but you have your database file listed between your project files and the property Copy to Output directory is set to Copy Always. At this point Visual Studio obliges and copies the original database file from the project folder to the output folder (BIN\DEBUG) and thus your previous changes are lost.
Now, your application inserts/updates again the target table, you again can't find any error in your code and restart the loop again until you decide to post or search on StackOverflow.
You could stop this problem by clicking on the database file listed in your Solution Explorer and changing the property Copy To Output Directory to Copy If Newer or Never Copy. Also you could update your connectionstring in the Server Explorer to look at the working copy of your database or create a second connection. The first one still points to the database in the project folder while the second one points to the database in the BIN\DEBUG folder. In this way you could keep the original database ready for deployment purposes and schema changes, while, with the second connection you could look at the effective results of your coding efforts.
EDIT Special warning for MS-Access database users. The simple act of looking at your table changes the modified date of your database ALSO if you don't write or change anything. So the flag Copy if Newer kicks in and the database file is copied to the output directory. With Access better use Copy Never.

Committing changes / saving changes across debug sessions is a familiar topic in SQL CE forums. It is something that trips up quite a few people. I'll post links to source articles below, but I wanted to paste the answer that seems to get the best results to the most people:
You have several options to change this behavior. If your sdf file is part of the content of your project, this will affect how data is persisted. Remember that when you debug, all output of your project (including the sdf) if in the bin/debug folder.
You can decide not to include the sdf file as part of your project and manage the file location runtime.
If you are using "copy if newer", and project changes you make to the database will overwrite any runtime/debug changes.
If you are using "Do not copy", you will have to specify the location in code (as two levels above where your program is running).
If you have "Copy always", any changes made during runtime will always be overwritten
Answer Source
Here is a link to some further discussion and how to documentation.

How to add entity-framework to console application (images are included)

I try to add entity-framework to console application:
I press "add new item" and
then
then
then I added code:
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
try
{
Database1Entities db = new Database1Entities();
db.AddToTableTest(new TableTest { name = "name" });
db.SaveChanges();
int count = db.TableTest.Count();
int ui = 9 + 0;
}
catch (Exception e)
{
}
}
}
It gives no error, but I don't see any changes in database.
I described the issue better here

I did the same steps you did to setup a EF model. your database.mdf file has the Copy to Output Directory set to Copy always, that means that every time you hit F5 (build or debug your app) the file is getting replaced by the empty one on your project.
Changing the Copy to Output Directory on the Properties window of the mdf file should solve your problem.
If you use Copy if newer you are going to be persisting any modifications on the contents of the database until you edit the database (mdf) itself.
With Do not copy any change to the mdf file is not going to get reflected on your application and will probably generate problems with EF.
I recommend for this scenario that you use Copy if newer and fill your basic data in the mdf file so you will have it always available.

Unable retrieve records from SQLite database for smart device application

I am using SQLite.NET with C#[ visual studio 2008] and added the 'System.Data.SQLite.dll' as reference. The following code works with Windows Application for fetching data from my database file into a datagrid.
private void SetConnection()
{
sql_con = new SQLiteConnection("Data Source=emp.db;Version=3;");
}
public DataTable LoadData()
{
SetConnection();
sql_con.Open();
sql_cmd = sql_con.CreateCommand();
string CommandText = "select * from employeedetails";
transaction=sql_con.BeginTransaction();
DA = new SQLiteDataAdapter(CommandText, sql_con);
DS.Reset();
DA.Fill(DS);
DT = DS.Tables[0];
transaction.Commit();
sql_con.Close();
return DT;
}
Invoking in:
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
EmpTable obj = new EmpTable();
this.dataGridView1.DataSource = obj.LoadData();
}
The same code not working with C# 'Smart Device Application'. It shows an exception: no such table 'employeedetails'.
For Smart Device Application I have added the System.Data.SQLite.dll from "SQLite/CompactFramework" folder.
Please help me to resolve this.
Thanks in advance.

I'm not sure if this is what is causing your issue, but we've had issues in the past with mobile devices and sqlite where this solved it:
For an application using the compact framework, you need to include SQLite.Interop.xxx.DLL in your project (in addition to the regular System.Data.SQLite.DLL). Make sure you set the file to copy if newer or copy always.
Keep in mind that you can't set a reference to the interop dll. You must include it in the project by adding it as a file.
For more information check this website under the Distributing The SQLite Engine and ADO.NET Assembly section.

Thank You Guys,
I've resolved the Problem. As 'siyw' said, the problem was the application could not find the "db file".
For windows application,
The db file has to be located in debug folder where the .exe file is generated. So that, no need to specify the path of the DB file.
For Smart Device Application,
The DB file will be generated in the root folder of the device. If we bind the db file with exe means, it wont find it and it will create a new database in root folder.
To avoid that, while crating CAB file we have to create custom folder [ ex. DBfolder ] and put the db file in the folder.
Set the path in the connection String as,
sql_con = new SQLiteConnection("Data Source=DBfolder/emp.db;Version=3;");
Now, the db is found by the Application.

sql_con = new SQLiteConnection("Data Source=emp.db;Version=3;");
I think you need to specify the full path here, and make sure it's correct. If the path is to a non-existent file, it will create a new emp.db database file there instead. This new file will obviously be empty and without any tables, hence it would give a no such table 'employeedetails' exception such as you're getting if you query it.

Why can't I insert a record into my SQL Compact 3.5 database?

I just made a very simple test app using documentation from MSDN. All I want to do is insert a record into my table which is in a SQL Server Compact database in my VS 2010 app.
But when I run it, it acts like it executes fine (no errors), but a record is never inserted into my SQL Compact 3.5 database when I go to view the table data from Server Explorer.
My code is as follows:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Data.SqlServerCe;
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
SqlCeConnection conn = null;
try
{
conn = new SqlCeConnection("Data Source = test.sdf; Password ='pass'");
conn.Open();
SqlCeCommand cmd = conn.CreateCommand();
cmd.CommandText = "INSERT INTO TEST ([test]) Values('NWIND')";
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
}
finally
{
conn.Close();
}
}
}
}
I have a database named test.sdf. It contains a table "test" with 1 column "test".
My sample test app is available at: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3051071/ConsoleApplication1.zip
I have tested the database connection to my test.sdf database and that tests fine.
I can not figure for the life of my why I am unable to insert a record into my table. Whenever I view my data after execution, the value is always null in my table.
Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong here?
Thanks.

Which .sdf file are you viewing in SSMS? I've just tried your app - check the content of the test table in the .sdf in the bin\Debug folder - it looks right to me.

I Moved my database out of the |DataDirectory| because I didn't feel confy using the db in Bin\Debug Folder.... so now everything is fine :-)
because at the debugging time everything is moved to Bin\Debug folder :-/ didn't knew that :-( but now great, thankx fellas
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