I just upgraded to VS2005 and am just wondering what the differences are between the data access setups. I know that in my current code from previous projects I have data adapters and I see that the VS2005 doesn't even have data adapters. The reason I'm asking....
I was working with a project and I needed to add another connection/data adapter and I couldn't. So, I just copied and pasted a previous one and set the properties like I wanted. This didn't work and only made it so none of my connections/adapters are working now. It was odd, but would it be worth my time to just switch over to the newer style Thanks for your time.
Data Adapters...where are they?
Splotz
rajSekhar
No need to copy paste, you might accidentally copy something you dont need and cause more problems for yourself. Although DataAdapter does not exist in the toolbar, you can manually add it yourswelf (rclick on toolbar section and "Choose Items...", then locate and select sqldataadapter). Then you can drag-drop it on the form as before. Even the wizard is still there :)
Although I would recomend you to master new dataset/table adapter functionality and switch to that.
As for your non-functioning dataadapters, do you get an error or something
ifaber
Data adapters are now Table Adapters and are embedded directly into typed datasets. There are a lot of tutorials available for this.
Btw, I find it strange that your existing dataadapters dont work, they are still supported (although not directly available from toolbar), and they are still I believe the only way to load dynamic schema based data into untyped dataset.