Question

I’d like to be able to better access the database so I can execute queries (primarily because I don’t understand/know the API for it, but I do know SQL). I don’t want to remove everything Visual Studio has done because a lot is already built upon it, but how can I get an object that I can use to execute SQL queries.

This is Visual Studio 2008, C#, and MSSQL

Answer 1

Try something like this:

using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection('Connection String Goes Here')) {     conn.Open();     using (SqlCommand comm = new SqlCommand('SELECT * FROM TABLE', conn))     {         return command.ExecuteScalar() as string;     } } 

Don’t forget to add:

using System.Data; using System.Data.SqlClient;