Question

I have a table made in SQL Server 2005 which has the following columns:

Fname (char (50)),
MailFrom (char (50)),
MailTo (char (50)),
Subject (char (50)),
MBody (char (100)),
MailID (int)

After entering rows into the table, I want to extract and store them in either a text file/ document file/ window form having text fields for each column.

Any suggestions to get the best possible way to extract the data from the database and save it on a file.

Answer 1

using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(connectionString))
{
    SqlCommand com = new SqlCommand("Select * from mytable", conn);
    DataReader reader = com.ExecuteReader();

    using (TextWriter writer = new TextWriter("myFile.txt"))
    {
        while (reader.Read())
        {
            StringBuilder myData = new StringBuilder();
            myData.Append(reader["Fname"].ToString();
            //etc - see how you want to format it

            writer.WriteLine(myData.ToString());
        }
    }
}