Storing a kind of table in C#

[shahoo]

Hi,
I have a program which should store some kind of tables like the ones
in MS Word. I have no idea how to store the tables in C# and store
them in a database and get them back whenever needed. Does anyone have
an idea about it?

 

[Michael Nemtsev, MVP]

Hello shahoo,

Not so clear what you would like to get.
Could you describe what are u going and what "store some kind of tables like
the ones in MS Word" means for you

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s> Hi,
s> I have a program which should store some kind of tables like the ones
s> in MS Word. I have no idea how to store the tables in C# and store
s> them in a database and get them back whenever needed. Does anyone
s> have
s> an idea about it?

 

[Arto V Viitanen]

Hi,
I have a program which should store some kind of tables like the ones
in MS Word. I have no idea how to store the tables in C# and store
them in a database and get them back whenever needed. Does anyone have
an idea about it?

Since you mentioned table and database, are you talking about relations?
Or, are you talking about tables like in documents (headers, lines etc.)?

 

[shahoo]

Since you mentioned table and database, are you talking about relations?

Or, are you talking about tables like in documents (headers, lines etc.)?

Yes I am talking about documents (headers, lines etc.) I want to store
a table which is drawn in lines and has headers and footers and such
data in a database and view them in my application.
Here is the complete description:
I want to write a program for a company and they have some kind of
registration forms which are drawn in form of tables in MS Word. They
have been using this procedure for several years. Now they wan a
better way to store the data (in a database) and retrive them back
whenever needed. I don't know how to store the data in my application.
I thaught a good approach may be to use lines and lables on a panel,
but I don't know how to store them efficently in a database. Could you
please help with that?
Thanks.

 

[Andrew]

Yes I am talking about documents (headers, lines etc.) I want to store
a table which is drawn in lines and has headers and footers and such
data in a database and view them in my application.
Here is the complete description:
I want to write a program for a company and they have some kind of
registration forms which are drawn in form of tables in MS Word. They
have been using this procedure for several years. Now they wan a
better way to store the data (in a database) and retrive them back
whenever needed. I don't know how to store the data in my application.
I thaught a good approach may be to use lines and lables on a panel,
but I don't know how to store them efficently in a database. Could you
please help with that?
Thanks.

Storing the data in a database, and displaying the data in
nice-looking-tables is two completely separate things. You wouldn't store
the nice-looking-tables in the database, you'd only store the raw data.

For storing the data, you might look up stuff like dataset and datatable.
For displaying the data nicely, you might check out the Crystal reports
stuff...

 

[shahoo]

For storing the data, you might look up stuff like dataset and datatable.

For displaying the data nicely, you might check out the Crystal reports
stuff...

Thanks for the reply, but there is a problem: the user must be able to
create new reports using my program. Is it possible to do that in a
program (and not in VS.NET 2005)? I mean is it possible to add those
abilities to the program and let the user design the report as he/she
likes it to be?