I am new to VB, and am struggling to figure out how to make this work. I have 3 databases being used on the back end that are populated by forms. I want to create the ability for the users to generate custom reports and export them to a .csv file.
There are roughly 20 values I want to provide options for in the combobox, and I can't find a way to better add these values than to manually enter each of them for all 20 rows (would make for a VERY long public sub) LOL. the below code works, but it won't scale. What can I use other than an IF statement so that the value selected in cmbColumn1 determines how the column is populated from the database?
Public Sub btnViewReport_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnViewReport.Click
Dim OleDBC As New OleDbCommand
Dim OleDBDR As OleDbDataReader
Dim c As Integer
c = 0
If cmbColumn1.Text = "Patient ID" Then
With OleDBC
.Connection = conn
.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM tblPatientsRecord WHERE PatientID like '%" & txtSearch.Text & "%'"
End With
OleDBDR = OleDBC.ExecuteReader
DataGridViewReport.Rows.Clear()
If OleDBDR.HasRows Then
While OleDBDR.Read
DataGridViewReport.Rows.Add()
DataGridViewReport.Item(0, c).Value = OleDBDR.Item(0)
c = c + 1
End While
Else
End If
End If
End Sub
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
Dim comboBoxHeaderCell1 As ComboBox = New ComboBox()
comboBoxHeaderCell1.DropDownStyle = ComboBoxStyle.DropDownList
comboBoxHeaderCell1.Visible = True
comboBoxHeaderCell1.Items.Add("Column1")
comboBoxHeaderCell1.Items.Add("Column2")
dataGridView1.Controls.Add(comboBoxHeaderCell1)
comboBoxHeaderCell1.Location = Me.dataGridView1.GetCellDisplayRectangle(0, -1, True).Location
comboBoxHeaderCell1.Size = Me.dataGridView1.Columns(0).HeaderCell.Size
comboBoxHeaderCell1.Text = "Column1"
End Sub