Newbie? Searching DataSets

[Barry]

Hi All
I am trying to search a DataSet by Year and return all the records in the
DataSet for that year.I've tried loops and keep getting an exception error
when I Just use a year for my search. Here's my basic coding which works
for finding a particular date and adds it to the list.
Thanks Barry

Private Sub btnShow_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles btnShow.Click

'Clears listbox for next Search

lstDisplay.Items.Clear()

'Declarations

Dim i As Integer

Dim RowIndex1 As Integer


'Creates new DataTable and Fills It, and adds column headings

Dim fmtStr As String = "{0,-40}{1,-40}{2,25:N1}{3,25:N1}{4,25:N1}{5,35}"

Dim dt As New DataTable

Dim connStr As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & "Data Source =
Milage.MDB"

Dim sqlStr As String = "SELECT * FROM Miles"

Dim dataAdapter As New OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter(sqlStr, connStr)

dataAdapter.Fill(dt)

dataAdapter.Dispose()

lstDisplay.Items.Add(String.Format(fmtStr, "Purpose Of Trip", "Who I
Visited", "Starting Milage", "Ending Milage", "Miles This Trip", "Date"))



Dim Date1 As Date

Dim Date1Found As Boolean = False


Date1 = InputBox("Enter Start Date For Report")



For i = 0 To (dt.Rows.Count - 1)

If CStr(dt.Rows(i)("Date")) = Date1 Then

Date1Found = True

RowIndex1 = i

lstDisplay.Items.Add(String.Format(fmtStr, dt.Rows(i)(0), dt.Rows(i)(1),
dt.Rows(i)(2), dt.Rows(i)(3), _

dt.Rows(i)(4), dt.Rows(i)(5)))

End If

Next

If (Not Date1Found) Then

MsgBox("Cannot find the records requested!")

End If

End Sub

 

[Cor]

Hi Barry,

You should definitly have a look at the dataview sort and rowfilter
or to the dataset.select.

The select makes this posible

dim dr() as datarow = datatable.select("mySQLdate = mywisheddate")

The dataview

dim dv as new dataview(mytable)
dim dv.sort = "mySQLdate"
dim dv.rowfilter = "mySQLdate = mywisheddate"

Cor