Question

I have a report that gets updated every week that needs pushed out to 30+ PC’s and the number is rising each week. I am trying to figure out how to take an Access Database and push the files out from a location on our server to all of each of those PC’s but what I can’t wrap my head around is how to do it. I was going to use a copy command and then use the value of the PC ID in a string and enter it into the file paths. This is a little bit more advanced than I am used to working with. Here’s what I have so far:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.IO;

namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            // TODO: This line of code loads data into the 'database1DataSet1.PCID_List' table. You can move, or remove it, as needed.
            this.pCID_ListTableAdapter.Fill(this.database1DataSet1.PCID_List);

        }

        private void button_Close_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            this.Close();
        }

        static void button_Run_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            string reportLocationCopy = @"Location TBD";
            string repLoc = @"Location TBD";
            if (File.Exists(repLoc))
            {
                // If file already exists in destination, delete it
                if (File.Exists(reportLocationCopy))
                    File.Delete(reportLocationCopy);
                File.Copy(repLoc, reportLocationCopy);
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

What I would do is this:

Open a database connection that selects your required information. Then use a sqldata adapter/datatable to draw the number of rows. Then I would write a foreach statement that uses these PCs and sends the updated file. So off the top of my head…

 //select query here and your connectionstring
 //then fill table as seen below
 SqlDataAdapter sDA = new SqlDataAdapter(query, connectionString);
 DataTable table = new DataTable();
 sDA.Fill(table);

 foreach (DataRow row in table.Rows)
 {
    string pc = (row["PCs"].ToString());
     //send files
 }