TableAdapters

TableAdapters provide communication between your application and a database by executing SQL statements and stored procedures against a database. In addition to the standard functionality of a DataAdapter, TableAdapters provide additional queries that share a common schema with the associated typed DataTable. The TableAdapter loads the returned data into its associated data table in your application, or returns new data tables already populated with data.

In This Section

• TableAdapter Overview
  Explains what TableAdapters are and the tools available to create them.

• TableAdapter Configuration Wizard
  Describes how to run the wizard and provides details for each wizard screen.

• TableAdapter Query Configuration Wizard
  Describes how to run the wizard and provides details for each wizard screen.

• Working with Null Values in TableAdapters
  Provides the steps for enabling null values in TableAdapter parameters.

• How to: Create TableAdapters
  Provides the steps to create a new TableAdapter.

• How to: Edit TableAdapters
  Provides the steps to edit existing TableAdapters.

• How to: Create TableAdapter Queries
  Provides the steps to add a query to an existing TableAdapter.

• How to: Edit TableAdapter Queries
  Provides the steps to edit existing TableAdapter queries.

• How to: View the Queries in a TableAdapter
  Explains how to view the existing queries in a TableAdapter.

• How to: Extend the Functionality of a TableAdapter
  Provides the steps for creating a partial class for the TableAdapter where you can add code in addition to the designer-generated code.

• How to: Create Parameterized TableAdapter Queries
  Provides the steps to create TableAdapter queries that accept parameters.

• How to: Add Global Queries to a Dataset
  Provides the steps to create a TableAdapter with a query that returns a single value.

• How to: Execute TableAdapter Queries
  Provides the steps to execute TableAdapter queries.

• Walkthrough: Creating a TableAdapter with Multiple Queries
  Provides step-by-step instructions for creating a TableAdapter and adding a query to it.

Related Sections

• Connecting to Data in Visual Studio
  Provides links to topics explaining how to create connections to different sources of data.

• Preparing Your Application to Receive Data
  Provides links to topics describing the Dataset Designer and tasks that can be accomplished with it.

• Fetching Data into Your Application
  Provides links to topics describing how to execute SQL statements and stored procedures, as well as loading the returned data into datasets.

• Displaying Data on Forms in Windows Applications
  Provides links to topics describing how to display data on Windows Forms.

• Editing Data in Your Application
  Provides links to topics describing how to manipulate the data in the data tables of a dataset.

• Validating Data
  Provides links to topics describing how to add validation to a dataset during column and row changes.

• Saving Data
  Provides topics about writing data changes back to a database.

• ADO.NET Data Adapters
  Provides topics about working with data adapters.

• ADO.NET
  Describes the ADO.NET classes, which expose data-access services to the .NET programmer.

• Working with Data in Managed Device Projects
  Describes how to manage data for devices in Visual Studio.

• Data in Office Solutions
  Contains links to topics that explain how data works in Office solutions, including information about schema-oriented programming, data caching, and server-side data access.