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 Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 7:40 am Post subject: C# local database. |
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How do i open a connection to the local database with code?
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I don't do much database programming, but I would either use xml or use microsoft access. You can use SQL, but that would require the user to have it installed on there computer.
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| killersamurai wrote: | I don't do much database programming, but I would either use xml or use microsoft access. You can use SQL, but that would require the user to have it installed on there computer.
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Not necessarily.
The SQL Database would be installed on a server computer, and the user connects to it.
For example, would game programmers want to have the entire SQL Database of users/passwords/emails/etc installed on every user's computer? No--something's bound to screw up. Rather, they have hte user connect to it, using a part of the game as a middle man.
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However, if you just want to have the user get some information from their own computer, SQL would be overkill (and killersamurai would be right about the user having to have it installed)--in that case, you should just use XML.
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Well.
I dont think it will overkill. It's simple information that will be saved.
I want a db instead of using a ini.
Can somebody now tell me how to connect to the db to get or modify information?
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:06 am Post subject: |
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| Naablet wrote: | Well.
I dont think it will overkill. It's simple information that will be saved. |
Exactly why it'll be overkill.
| Naablet wrote: | | I want a db instead of using a ini. |
Ini files are way outdated--you shouldn't have even considered that. Rather, you should use XML files, or the registry. Both have ample tutorials on Google for C#.
| Naablet wrote: | | Can somebody now tell me how to connect to the db to get or modify information? |
Once again, a database is way overkill, and that's not how a database is supposed to be used: there is only supposed to be one database, on the server computer, and everyone else simply connects.
You'd be making a huge mistake to try to create a database on the user's computer is use that.
What happens when they hack the database? What happens when they don't have SQL installed? What happens when they uninstall SQL?
You can't "uninstall" XML, or the registry--you just can't.
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Thanks.
I'll try xml.
Will the user's need Chilkat's xml lib installed if i add it to the program.
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What compiler do you use? Visual Studio?
Check out the Properties class, you can save settings easy using this class. [url=http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730869(VS.80).aspx]MSDN Article link[/url]
And connecting to a MYSQL database is possible, although quite weird if you ask me.. You need to install some sort of driver on the clients computer. Geekpedia link
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