I haven't ever made a search before
To be honest... that's not true... I was just in your other thread... you do know how to do a search... you just may not realize it.
It's all in the where clause... even something like this:
Is a search... it's searching for the record where the ID is 3.
So what you need is to search for all records where a field is LIKE the value in RecipeSearchText...
Code:
WHERE yourRecipieField like '%' + " & RecipeSearchText & " + '%'"
just because JM slapped my hand a moment ago for using concatenation, here's the parameterized version
Code:
WHERE yourRecipieField like '%' + @SearchText + '%'"
Then you can use .AddWithValue to add RecipeSearchText to the parameters collection.
-tg