Question

Here is the situation:

I have a webform that needs to read specific fields from a database that uses the eval function in the .aspx page. I know how to assign the values in the .aspx page, but in the code behind how do I “get” the values and bind them to the .aspx page? Can I just used a datareader? Dataset? What exactly am I going to be binding or reading to the dataset or reader? Do I need to create a method?

I already have the stored procedure created to pull the data from the database. I was going to create a method with the stored procedure. I just dont which kind to create…dataset, datareader? And how do I code it in the code behind?

Answer 1

Declare public properties for your DB fields:

public int MyFieldID = 0;
public string MyStringFromDB = string.empty;

// PAGE LOAD GET DB VALUES
{
    MyFieldID = Convert.ToInt32(db["ID"]);
    MyStringFromDB = Convert.ToString(db["FIELD"]);
}

Now you can either just assign them in the aspx page like <%=MyFieldID%> or use them in the code behind.