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Connecting To MySQL Database Using C

This document summarizes how to connect to a MySQL database from a C# application using the MySQL Connector/NET library. It involves installing the connector, creating a connection string, executing queries to retrieve and manipulate data, and updating the database by calling adapter.Update() which executes INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statements based on changes made to the data. Sample code is provided to get all items from the database, display them in a DataGridView, and allow editing, inserting, and deleting rows which are then saved back to the database.

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Connecting To MySQL Database Using C

This document summarizes how to connect to a MySQL database from a C# application using the MySQL Connector/NET library. It involves installing the connector, creating a connection string, executing queries to retrieve and manipulate data, and updating the database by calling adapter.Update() which executes INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statements based on changes made to the data. Sample code is provided to get all items from the database, display them in a DataGridView, and allow editing, inserting, and deleting rows which are then saved back to the database.

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Connecting to MySQL Database using C# and .

NET
By Shabdar Ghata | 7 Apr 2010
C#.NETMySQL
This article shows you how to connect to MySQL database using MySQL Connector
for .NET
 
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Introduction

This article shows you how to connect to MySQL database using MySQL Connector
for .NET. I will also show you how you can update mysql database records using
C#.

Prerequisites for Running Sample

 Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008


 MySQL database installed on your local machine or remote host
 MySQL database admin tool that allows you to create database and run SQL
statements. I am using phpMyAdmin which is a web interface.

Getting Started

 Go to MySQL admin tool, and create a new database, call it inventorydb


 Download MySQL script from the following link. This is a .sql file. It contains
items table structure and data.
Download MySQL script file

Open this file with MySQL Admin tool or copy paste SQL syntax from this file
into MySQL Admin tool. Run it and it should create items table in
inventorydb database.
 For Visual Studio, you need to install MySQL Connector for .NET which is
basically a .NET library to support MySQL database connectivity in .NET. Go
to the following link to download connector and install it.

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net

When you install connector, make sure that you close Visual Studio before
installing.

 Once MySQL connector is installed successfully on your computer, download


the sample from the following link and extract it in some folder.

Download sample

 Open sample solution file with Visual Studio.


 Inside Solution Explorer, open App.Config file and change connection string
so that it points to MySQL database that you created before. Change
database user name and password in connection string as per your
database instance.

 Run the sample and it should give you a list of items in grid. You can update,
insert or delete items from this list.
Source Code Description

The source code of this sample is very straight forward.

 Initialize mysql connection using the following code:

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//Initialize mysql connection


connection = new MySqlConnection(ConnectionString);

//Get all items in datatable


DTItems = GetAllItems();

 GetAllItems() function returns all items from database table:

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//Get all items from database into datatable


DataTable GetAllItems()
{
try
{
//prepare query to get all records from items table
string query = "select * from items";
//prepare adapter to run query
adapter = new MySqlDataAdapter(query, connection);
DataSet DS = new DataSet();
//get query results in dataset
adapter.Fill(DS);
.
.
.
//return datatable with all records
return DS.Tables[0];
}

 After retrieving all items in a datatable, fill grid view using datatable:

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dataGridView1.DataSource = DTItems;

 When initializing dataset, set update, insert and delete commands with
adapter.

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.
.
// Set the UPDATE command and parameters.
adapter.UpdateCommand = new MySqlCommand(
"UPDATE items SET ItemName=@ItemName, Price=@Price, _
AvailableQuantity=@AvailableQuantity, Updated_Dt=NOW() _
WHERE ItemNumber=@ItemNumber;",connection);
adapter.UpdateCommand.Parameters.Add("@ItemNumber", _
MySqlDbType.Int16, 4, "ItemNumber");
adapter.UpdateCommand.Parameters.Add_
("@ItemName", MySqlDbType.VarChar, 100, "ItemName");
adapter.UpdateCommand.Parameters.Add_
("@Price", MySqlDbType.Decimal, 10, "Price");
adapter.UpdateCommand.Parameters.Add_
("@AvailableQuantity", MySqlDbType.Int16, 11, "AvailableQuantity");
adapter.UpdateCommand.UpdatedRowSource = UpdateRowSource.None;

// Set the INSERT command and parameter.


adapter.InsertCommand = new MySqlCommand(
"INSERT INTO items VALUES (@ItemNumber,@ItemName,_
@Price,@AvailableQuantity,NOW());",connection);
adapter.InsertCommand.Parameters.Add("@ItemNumber", _
MySqlDbType.Int16, 4, "ItemNumber");
adapter.InsertCommand.Parameters.Add("@ItemName", _
MySqlDbType.VarChar, 100, "ItemName");
adapter.InsertCommand.Parameters.Add("@Price", _
MySqlDbType.Decimal, 10, "Price");
adapter.InsertCommand.Parameters.Add_
("@AvailableQuantity", MySqlDbType.Int16, 11, "AvailableQuantity");
adapter.InsertCommand.UpdatedRowSource = UpdateRowSource.None;

// Set the DELETE command and parameter.


adapter.DeleteCommand = new MySqlCommand(
"DELETE FROM items " + "WHERE ItemNumber=@ItemNumber;", connection);
adapter.DeleteCommand.Parameters.Add("@ItemNumber", _
MySqlDbType.Int16, 4, "ItemNumber");
adapter.DeleteCommand.UpdatedRowSource = UpdateRowSource.None;
.
.
.

 When Save button is clicked, we need to update adapter in order to save


records. Note that when the adapter is updated, corresponding commands
(insert, update or delete) are executed against the database based on
operations that you have done on grid.

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private void btnSave_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)


{
try
{
//Save records in database using DTItems which is datasource for
Grid
adapter.Update(DTItems);
.
.
.
 When Delete button is clicked, we need to remove row from datatable. After
that, update adapter to save records.

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private void btnDelete_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)


{
if (dataGridView1.SelectedRows.Count > 0)
{
//Delete a row from grid first.
dataGridView1.Rows.Remove(dataGridView1.SelectedRows[0]);

//Save records again. This will delete record from database.


adapter.Update(DTItems);
.
.

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