In this blog we will know how to display records in a listview (windows) from the database.

Code

App.config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<configuration>

<appSettings>

<add key="dsn" value="Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=..\EMP.mdb" />

</appSettings>

</configuration>

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.OleDb;

namespace Listview_display

{

public partial class Form1 : Form

{

string ConnectionString = System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["dsn"];

OleDbCommand com;

OleDbDataAdapter oledbda;

string str;

DataSet ds;

DataTable dt;

public Form1()

{

InitializeComponent();

}

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

listView1.Columns.Add("ID", 70, HorizontalAlignment.Center);

listView1.Columns.Add("GRADE", 70, HorizontalAlignment.Center);

listView1.View = View.Details;

listView1.GridLines = true;

listView1.BackColor = Color.Aqua;

listView1.ForeColor = Color.Blue;

OleDbConnection con = new OleDbConnection(ConnectionString);

con.Open();

str = "select * from test Query";

com = new OleDbCommand(str, con);

oledbda = new OleDbDataAdapter(com);

ds = new DataSet();

oledbda.Fill(ds, "test Query");

con.Close();

dt = ds.Tables["test Query"];

int i;

for (i = 0; i <= dt.Rows.Count - 1; i++)

{

listView1.Items.Add(dt.Rows[i].ItemArray[0].ToString());

listView1.Items[i].SubItems.Add(dt.Rows[i].ItemArray[1].ToString());

}

}

}

}

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