Question

I know this is a silly question and I feel so stupid, but I can’t find the right (the easy) way to accomplish my task.
I have an Access database imported in Visual Studio 2010 for a C# project: VS creates for me (thanks!!) strongly-typed dataset about my db. Well done.
Then, in my app, I create a new instance of this dataset CDS ds = new CDS(); and add records in its tables. Finally I do ds.AcceptChanges(); but nothing happens on db.
OK, I googled araound and think (realize?!?) I gotta open a db connection, create a DataAdapter and fill my dataset with this:

CDS ds = new CDS();
OleDbConnection conn = new OleDbConnection(path_to_db);
conn.Open();
OleDbDataAdapter da = new OleDbDataAdapter("SELECT * FROM mytable", conn);
da.Fill(ds.Editori); //Editori is a TableTable created automatically
// Insert rows in dataset
if (ds.HasChanges()) ds.AcceptChanges();
int ret = da.Update(ds.Editori);
Debug.Print("Update() returns: {0}", ret);
conn.Close();

but ret=0 and nothing happens on database, while in DS.Editori I have 106 rows!!

To complete my desperation: table mytable has an auto increment field as primary key; when I load ds with da, this field is correct for every record, but when I insert rows on ds, records have -1, -2, -3, etc… Why?

Can someone tells me the right way to work with strongly-typed datasets?
I gonna study, read books, I promise, but now I’m late for this job…
Thanks

UPDATE:
As suggested from Dev-Express I created the insert command, but the result is the same: when I update da, nothing happens on db.

OleDbCommand cmd = new OleDbCommand(
    "INSERT INTO Editori (ID,Editore) VALUES(?,?)", conn);
cmd.Parameters.Add("@ID", OleDbType.Integer);
cmd.Parameters.Add("@Editore", OleDbType.VarChar, 255, "Editore");
da.InsertCommand = cmd;
int ret = da.Update(ds.Editori);
Debug.Print("Update() returns: {0}", ret);
conn.Close();

ANOTHER UPDATE:
I solved problem with primary keys: in generated class I manually had to change all of these lines:

this.columnID.AutoIncrementSeed = 1; // It was -1
this.columnID.AutoIncrementStep = 1; // It was -1

Answer 1

You should also specify the UpdateCommand of the OleDBDataAdapter and then execute it by calling the da.Update method. There is an example of how this can be done in the MSDN:

OleDbDataAdapter.OleDbDataAdapter(String, OleDbConnection) Constructor