CIS 407 DeVry iLab 3 of 7 latest

STEP 1: Data Connection, Dataset and Data Access Class (10 points)
1. Open Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2008.
2. Open the PayrollSystem website by clicking on it in the Recent Projects list, or by pulling down the File menu,
selecting Open Website, navigating to the folder where you previously saved the PayrollSystem, and clicking Open.
3. Download the PayrollSystem_DB.MDB file from Doc Sharing and save it on your local computer. (Note: your
operating system may lock or block the file. Once you have copied it locally, right click on the file and select Properties
and then Unblock if available). Then add it to the PayrollSystem website as follows: In Visual Studio, in the Solution
Explorer click Website, Add Existing Item, then navigate to the PayrollSystem_DB.MDB file you downloaded and click
the Add button.
4. Now we need to create a new connection to the PayrollSystem_DB.MDB. To begin, click View Server Explorer.
5. When the Server Explorer toolbox appears, click the Connect to Database button.
6. When the Add Connection dialog appears, click the Change button. In the “Change Data Source” dialog, select
MS Access Database File; Uncheck Always use this Selection; then click OK.
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7. Click the Browse button to navigate to the PayrollSystem_DB.mdb file in your website folder, then click “Open”.
(NOTE: Be sure you select the PayrollSystem_DB.mdb file in your PayrollSystem website folder, not the one you
originally downloaded from Doc Sharing!) Click Test Connection. You should receive a message that the test
connection succeeded. Click OK to acknowledge the message, then click “OK” again to close the Add Connection
dialog.
8. The PayrollSystem_DB.mdb should be added to the Server Explorer. Expand the database, then expand the
Tables entry under the database until you see tblUserActivity. Leave the Server Explorer window open for now as you
will be returning to it in a moment.
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9. Create a new dataset by selecting Website Add New Item. Under Templates, select the Dataset item. Enter
dsUserActivity.xsd for the name. Click Add.
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Add Data Set
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12. If the following message appears, select Yes. You want to make this dataset available to your entire website.
13. If the TableAdapter Configuration Wizard dialog appears, click Cancel. (We will be configuring a Data Adapter for
this dataset later in C# code, so we do not need to run this wizard.)
14. Drag-and-drop the tblUserActivity table from the Server Explorer window into the dsUserActivity dataset in the
editor window.
NOTE: If you see a message that says your connection uses a local data file that is not in the current project, that
indicates you did not select the correct PayrollSystem_DB.mdb file when you created your data connection. To fix this
problem, click No, then right-click on PayrollSystem_DB.mdb in the Server Explorer window and choose Modify
Connection. Click the Browse button, navigate to the PayrollSystem_DB.mdb file that is in your PayrollSystem website
folder, and click Open. Test the connection, then click OK.
15. Click the Save icon on the toolbar to save the dsUserActivity.xsd dataset.
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Dataset Saved
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17. (You can now close the Server Explorer window if you wish.)