Question

I am relatively new to winforms and C# and I am developing an application that will allow users to perform a search. To search the data they can use the following:

-Combobox with 6 options

-text box that they will enter info based on the combobox search selected.

I have a stored procedure with a parameter for each of the search options. The procedure works for searching on any of the options. This procedure has been added to the project and I am connecting to it via a TableAdapter.

What I am struggling with is the best way to pass each of these search criteria to the code. I started it this way:

public void DataRefresh(string searchCombo, string searchValue)
    {
        string returnMessage = string.Empty;
        switch (searchCombo)
        {
            case "Acct":
                Data.Manager.TAM.SearchDataTableAdapter.Fill(DataSet.spSearchData, ref returnMessage, searchValue, null, null, null, null, null);
                break;
        }
        SearchDataBindingSource.DataSource = DataSet.spSearchData;
    }

I was initially thinking I could use the switch/case to pass the parameters based on what has been sent by the user.

Is there a better way to do this? I am thinking yes, but I can’t seem to think of a way.

Any suggestions would be great!

Answer 1

I figured out another way to do it, instead of passing 6 parameters to the stored procedure I changed it to only pass two the combobox value and the text box value. Then I put If statements in the stored proc to handle the values being passed through.

Thanks for your help.