The following example shows what a simple ADO.NET application that connects to the Northwind database and returns a list of Categories would look like. The example writes the output to the console, or command prompt.
The following example shows what a simple ADO.NET application that connects to the Northwind database and returns a list of Categories. The example writes the output to the console, or command prompt.
Public Shared Sub Main() Dim nwindConn As SqlConnection = New SqlConnection("Data Source=localhost;" & _ "User Id=sa;Password=pwd;Initial Catalog=northwind")
Dim catCMD As SqlCommand = nwindConn.CreateCommand() catCMD.CommandText = "SELECT CategoryID, CategoryName FROM Categories"
nwindConn.Open()
Dim myReader As SqlDataReader = catCMD.ExecuteReader()
Do While myReader.Read() Console.WriteLine(vbTab & "{0}" & vbTab & "{1}", myReader.GetInt32(0), myReader.GetString(1)) Loop
myReader.Close() nwindConn.Close() End Sub End Class [C#] using System; using System.Data; using System.Data.SqlClient;
class Sample { public static void Main() { SqlConnection nwindConn = new SqlConnection("Data Source=localhost;User Id=sa;Password=pwd;Initial Catalog=northwind");
Public Shared Sub Main() Dim nwindConn As OleDbConnection = New OleDbConnection("Provider=SQLOLEDB;Data Source=localhost;" & _ "User Id=sa;Password=pwd;Initial Catalog=northwind")
Dim catCMD As OleDbCommand = nwindConn.CreateCommand() catCMD.CommandText = "SELECT CategoryID, CategoryName FROM Categories"
nwindConn.Open()
Dim myReader As OleDbDataReader = catCMD.ExecuteReader()