Question

I have a table called NAMES in my SQL Server database. I am trying to retrieve the entire table and put it into a dataset:

//get the connection string from web.config
string connString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["Platform"].ConnectionString;
DataSet dataset = new DataSet();

using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(connString))
{
    SqlDataAdapter adapter = new SqlDataAdapter();                
    adapter.SelectCommand = new SqlCommand("NAMES", conn);
    adapter.Fill(dataset);
}  

This throws a sql exception though,

“Invalid Object Name NAMES”…

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Open the connection !!!!!!

 //get the connection string from web.config
 string connString = ConfigurationManager .ConnectionStrings["Platform"].ConnectionString;
 DataSet dataset = new DataSet();

 using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(connString))
 {
     SqlDataAdapter adapter = new SqlDataAdapter();                
     adapter.SelectCommand = new SqlCommand("select * from [NAMES]", conn);
     conn.Open(); 
     adapter.Fill(dataset);
 }