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Visual C# | LINQ with Entity Frameworks exercise | Add Guatemalan volcano event to events table
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| Software ==> | Visual C# (79 exercises) |
| Version ==> | Any version of C# |
| Topic ==> | LINQ with Entity Frameworks (4 exercises) |
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- Go into SQL Server Management Studio;
- Open the SQL file you've just unzipped (you can press CTRL + O to do this); then
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On June 3rd 2018 the Guatemalan volcano Fuego erupted - this event needs to be added to the tblEvent table (but first Guatemala needs to be added to the tblCountry table).
If you haven't already got one, create a Windows Forms project (using Visual C#, obviously) called wiseowl. Also if you haven't already done so, first right-click in Solution Explorer and add an ADO.NET Entity Data Model based on the WorldEvents database (tick all of the tables).
Create a new form called frmVolcano with a single clickable button. When you click on this button your code should:
| Task | Notes |
|---|---|
| Add a country | Guatemala isn't in the tblCountry table, so create a new tblCountry object, set its CountryName property, add it to your data context's collection of countries and then save changes for the data context! |
| Add an event | Similarly add the eruption event into the tblEvent table. Use category id number 4 (this corresponds to Natural World events). You'll need to set the CountryId, CategoryId, EventDate, EventName and EventDetails properties. |
Before displaying details of the event you've just added, you need to refresh the data context. One fairly primitive way to do this is to dispose of it and then recreate it:
// save these changes
dbEvents.SaveChanges();
// make sure have latest changes
dbEvents.Dispose();
dbEvents = new WorldEventsEntities();
Now use LINQ to get the event whose id number equals the id number of the event you've just added, then display these details in a message box:
Your message could look something like this.
Finally, add code to remove the event with the id number that you've just added, using code something like this:
// now remove this event
dbEvents.tblEvents.Remove(newEvent);
dbEvents.SaveChanges();
We'll leave Guatemala in the countries table for posterity!