[RESOLVED] First little DB app - having problems

Ok - I create a SDF in VS2005 - copied it to the PPC and now I am trying to run this code - deploying it to the PPC - app starts and I can click the FIND button...

VB Code:

Imports System.Data.SqlServerCe
 
Public Class StuMobile
 
    Private Dcn As SqlCeConnection
    Private Drc As SqlCeCommand
    Private Drs As SqlCeResultSet
    Private Drd As SqlCeDataReader
 
    Private Sub Find_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Find.Click
        Drc = New SqlCeCommand
        Drc.Connection = Dcn
        Drc.CommandType = Data.CommandType.Text
        Drc.CommandText = "Select * From Student Where LastName like '" & Find.Text & "%'"
        Drd = Drc.ExecuteReader
        Results.Clear()
        While Drd.Read
            Results.Items.Add(Drd(1))
        End While
    End Sub
 
    Private Sub StuMobile_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Dcn = New SqlCeConnection
        Dcn.ConnectionString = "Data Source=\My Documents\Business\iPAQ.sdf; Password=xyz"
        Dcn.Open()
    End Sub
End Class

Seems to be getting this error:

Quote:

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A first chance exception of type 'System.IO.FileNotFoundException' occurred in mscorlib.dll
A first chance exception of type 'System.IO.FileNotFoundException' occurred in mscorlib.dll

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I'm just doing a quick proof of concept - thought this would work.

Should I not be copying the SDF to the PPC?

Hi,
yes - you should be copying the SDF to the device.

Have you installed SqlMobile to the device?

Pete

When I first ran the app - it appeared that VS pushed out some files...

What do you mean by "installed sqlmobile"?

Hi,
there are a couple of cab files that will do a full install SqlMobile on the device, along with a query analyser.
Look for sql.dev.enu.ppc.wce4.armv4.cab for the dev install, and sqlce30.*.cab depending on your device

Pete

Thanks...

I left the office - going back in a couple of hours - I'll continue to fool with it then.

Did some googling and found links like this:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/Sho...32465&SiteID=1

Seems I'm probably not catching prior errors.

If you debug on a hardware device, SQLServerCE will be installed the first time you run the debugger.

I think catching some specific exceptions would help....but you already stated that.

Wow - what a nightmare this is for me...

I barely use VB.Net as it is - still stuck in VB6 for the most part.

Now I'm doing a CE app using .Net - and CE app's don't allow full .Net syntax.

For example - the overloads for LISTVIEW add don't exist - so I had to change it to this:

Code:

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        Results.Items.Clear()
        While Drd.Read
            Dim lwi As New ListViewItem
            lwi.Text = Drd(1)
            Results.Items.Add(lwi)
        End While

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and now it's working - so it had nothing to do with the exception I posted - which still occurs...

Quote:

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'iPAQ Test 2.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\CompactFramework\v2.0\Debugger\BCL\mscorlib.dll', No symbols loaded.
'iPAQ Test 2.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'c:\documents and settings\szlamany\my documents\visual studio 2005\projects\ipaq test 2\ipaq test 2\bin\debug\iPAQ Test 2.exe', Symbols loaded.
'iPAQ Test 2.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\CompactFramework\v2.0\Debugger\BCL\System.Windows.Forms.dll', No symbols loaded.
'iPAQ Test 2.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\CompactFramework\v2.0\Debugger\BCL\System.dll', No symbols loaded.
'iPAQ Test 2.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\CompactFramework\v2.0\Debugger\BCL\System.Drawing.dll', No symbols loaded.
'iPAQ Test 2.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\smartdevices\sdk\sql server\mobile\v3.0\System.Data.SqlServerCe.dll', No symbols loaded.
'iPAQ Test 2.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\CompactFramework\v2.0\Debugger\BCL\System.Data.dll', No symbols loaded.
'iPAQ Test 2.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\CompactFramework\v2.0\Debugger\BCL\System.Xml.dll', No symbols loaded.
'iPAQ Test 2.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\CompactFramework\v2.0\Debugger\BCL\Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll', No symbols loaded.
'iPAQ Test 2.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'System.SR.dll', No symbols loaded.
A first chance exception of type 'System.IO.FileNotFoundException' occurred in mscorlib.dll
A first chance exception of type 'System.IO.FileNotFoundException' occurred in mscorlib.dll

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At any rate - this error is still showing in the OUTPUT window but it's not stopping the process from running - and according to that MSDN forum link it's ok to ignore.