Question

The problem:

I have a webpage with 18 text box fields that I need to insert into a row. The column names are kept inside a Label array called labelArray. The text fields that the user enters data in will be in a Textbox array called textArray.Text.

I want to know how I can pass all 18 of my text fields in textArray to my Data Access Layer where I make my insert these fields into the database. My problem right now is that I cannot pass and array over to a class file. Is it possible to covert to string and pass over the insert string to my Data Access Layer?

The problem in more depth:

There is two columns with data that are set to Date/Time in my MS access database. How can I pass through a Date Time object to my access table? Is it ok if it’s a formated string?

If you need to see some code I have, I’m ready to post them and will be on StackOverflow for the next few hours.

Answer 1

The following code will convert a Textbox[] into an equivalent string representation:

var str = String.Join("\",\"", TextArray.Select(tb => tb.Text));
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(str)) {
    str = "\"" + str + "\"";
}
str = "[" + str + "]";

Keep in mind that double-quotation marks will not be escaped. Solutions can be found here and here.