Re: Problem with a readonly table in a dataset (data source) in VS by covey9257
covey9257
Mon Aug 21 08:39:02 CDT 2006
Thansk Bill that helped quite a bit. If I can figure out how to rate this, I
give you 2 thumbs up.
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cathy
"W.G. Ryan eMVP" wrote:
> Cathy - just so I understand, the tables in Access are Read Only? One thing
> you may want to do (b/c if they are read only, you might break something
> else by enabling them assuming the original developer had a reason to make
> them read only).
>
> Copy the schema of the tables to a new table. THen, configure the
> dataadapter's select command to point to the source table. Now, configure
> the adapter so that the INsert/Delete commands point to the new tables. Set
> the AcceptChangesDuringFill property to false and fill your datatable.
> Then, using the second adapters, call Update on them passing in the dataset
> you created in the first step. This will cause all of the rows to be
> inserted into the new table. THen you'll have the original talbe in Read
> Only format as well as a set of data you can work with.
>
> HTH,
>
> BIll
> "Cathy" <covey9257@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:74437CB8-6812-4985-9EDC-4856F95DCCB4@microsoft.com...
> >I created a data source that point to an Access database with 3 tables in
> >it.
> > My problem is that the tables are designated read only and I don't know
> > how
> > to change the setting so I can copy data to them. I can see the public
> > property in the config file but I am new to Visual Studio 2005 and don't
> > know
> > how to fix my problem.
> > --
> > cathy
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