Working with DataSet Events in ADO.NET

In this article I will explain working with DataSet Events in ADO.NET.

This article has been excerpted from book "A Programmer's Guide to ADO.NET in C#".

A dataset has a MergeFailed event that occurs when merging two datasets fails. MergeFailedEventHandler handles the MergeFailed event, which receives an argument of type MergeFailedEventArges that contains data related to this event. The MergeFailedEventHandler is as follows:

     public delegate void MergeFailedEventHandler(object sender, MergeFailedEventArgs e);

Where sender is the source of the event and e is the MergeFailedEventArgs abject that contains the event data.

The MergeFailedEventArgs has Conflict and Table properties. The Conflict property returns a description of the merge conflict, and the Table property returns the name of the data table. Listing 9-7 shows an example of the MergeFailed event handler. As you can see, the MergeFailedBtn_Click method creates a connection and a data adapter and then fills a dataset using the Fill method of the data adapter. After that the code creates a second dataset, calls the Fill method to fill it, and then calls the Merge method of the dataset.

Listing 9-7. Writing code to call the MergeFailed event handler

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Data.OleDb;

namespace Handling_ADO.NET_Events
{

    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void MergeFailedBtn_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
        {
            OleDbConnection conn = new OleDbConnection();
            string strDSN = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" +
            "Data Source=C:\\Northwind.mdb";

            conn.ConnectionString = strDSN;

            conn.Open();

            string sql = "SELECT * FROM Employees";

            OleDbDataAdapter da = new OleDbDataAdapter(sql, conn);
            DataSet ds1 = new DataSet("ds1");

            da.Fill(ds1);

            sql = "SELECT * FROM Customers";

            da = new OleDbDataAdapter(sql, conn);

            DataSet ds2 = new DataSet("ds2");

            da.Fill(ds2);

            ds1.MergeFailed += new MergeFailedEventHandler(OnMergeFailed);
            ds1.Merge(ds2);
        }

        protected static void OnMergeFailed(object sender, MergeFailedEventArgs args)
        {
            MessageBox.Show(args.Conflict.ToString());
        }
    }

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