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03/15/2010 (5:26 pm)

VB6 Find Record?

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  • Is there a way to put a find record on a VB6 form like in Access?


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  • You are straying into areas where Access shines and VB takes more work to accomplish the same things. If you want to the user to be able to submit search parameters and get back a list of matching records, you've got to do all the hard work yourself. 1. Create a series of controls where the user can enter their search parameters and a listbox to put the possible matches in. 2. When the user presses the search button, you parse the search values that the user entered into a SQL statement. 3. Run the SQL statement and put the results of the query into the listbox. dim sql, select, where, orderby as String select = "select field1, field2, field3 from sometable " orderby = "order by field2 " ' if user put something in txtFieldA textbox, use that to filter against table If Len(txtFieldA) > 0 Then If Len(where) > 0 Then where = where & " and " Else where = " where " End if where = where & "FieldA='" & txtFieldA & "'" ' FieldA is text or date End If ' if user put something in txtFieldB textbox, use that to filter against table If Len(txtFieldB) > 0 Then If Len(where) > 0 Then where = where & " and " Else where = " where " End if where = where & "FieldB=" & txtFieldB ' FieldB is numeric End If ' ...continue to build the query for all the other filter (parameter) fields sql = select & where & orderby ' put the sql statement together ' open the query using a Recordset rs.Open sql, mconAP, adOpenKeyset, adLockOptimistic, adCmdText ' put the results into a listbox rs.MoveFirst List1.Clear While not rs.EOF List1.AddItem (rs("Field1") & " - " & rs("Field2")) rs.MoveNext Wend You may want to find a good aftermarket datagrid ActiveX component for displaying data, rather than the listbox control. Some datagrids are very powerful and do a lot of work for you, much like Access forms do. It may also be worthwhile about now to teach yourself a little bit about SQL Server stored procedures. Most DBAs would cringe if they saw the code I just wrote, because it uses what is known as "inline SQL." As an application grows, you won't want bits and pieces of SQL statements scattered throughout your code. It's easier to centrally manage your application if it just calls stored procedures in the database, rather than parsing its own SQL statements. Some inline SQL is unavoidable, but stored procedures will make your software more portable, powerful and manageable.







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