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Asked: 2026-05-24T16:44:54+00:00

This is hopefully a fairly straightforward question. I am building a generic search form

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This is hopefully a fairly straightforward question.

I am building a generic search form in my application. This will allow the user to search for various records throughout the application.

The one thing I cannot seem to figure out is how to allow the declaration of the TableAdapter to change at run-time. Each part of the app will be passing a variable to the search form to specify which table should be loaded.

In the form class I have the following:

FRIEND WITHEVENTS tbaSearchData AS database.databaseTableAdapters.TableOneTableAdapter

This is great for TableOne. But, I have about a hundred tables that could be searched through.

To load the data I’m using a DataGridView and populating it via a private method.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Tableadapter is really meant for design time setup and doesn’t easily change at runtime. You may want to look into using a DataAdapter, like SqlDataAdapter, for these requests. These objects have lower overhead and aren’t as type specific as a tableadapter so making them at runtime is a decent solution.

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