How to deploy a windows forms application along with database?

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I have created a windows application in visual studio 10.I have made a setup file of it..But i want to use that software on another pc...so is there any way to attach database along with the software.

Posted 29-Jun-14 1:09am

Abhinav Chaudhary

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-29T01:21:00

Firstly, you should not include SQL Server in your installation. There are a couple of reasons:
0) You can only distribute SQL Server Express for copyright reasons - not SQL Server full version.
1) They may already have SQL Server installed on the network. If so, then they will presumably want to use that version.
2) If they do have SQL server installed and you start proliferating SQL server Express instances, you are going to annoy the heck out of the database administrator...
3) A single site installation of SQl Server is a lot more likely to be backed up than a number of scattered version under user control.
4) Sql server is quite complex for a "normal" user to install and administer - it is not a good idea!
5) It will destroy the primary advantage of using Sql Server over SqlCE or SQLite - multiuser access. If everyone installs their own copy of SQL server, then you will have multiple copies of your database, each used by a single person. This will cause some confusion, and (depending on how you wrote the original database) may take some considerable effort to combine into a single instance when the problem is realized.

So unless you need multi user access, you don't want to use SQL at all - change your code to use SQLCE or SqLite or even Access instead.

If you do need multiuser, then the easiest way to transfer the database with the app is to connect to SQL in your installer, and check if the DB exists - if it does, then you don't want to do anything.
If it doesn't, then get SQL to create it - it's pretty easy to create an SQL Command to generate the table structure:
1) Open the SQL Management Studio, and right click on your database.
2) Under "Tasks", select "Generate Scripts..." In the dialog that follows, press "Next" until you get to the part asking where to save it.
3) Select somewhere sensible, and click the "Advanced" button. Look for the "Types of data to script" option (it should be at the bottom of the "General" category). Select "Schema and data".
4) Press "OK" and "Next" until the file has been generated.

If you look at the file, it will be a complete script to regenerate your database, complete with data.

sankarsan parida · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-29T01:23:00

For this you have follow some steps. And go through following below.

1.You connection string will not write directly inside your code.
For that you have to write your connection string inside a notepad.
And then read the notepad text by streamreader . get connectionstring from your given notepad.
then pass this connectionstring to connect database.

2. Now you will install some another system. You just put that notepad your specific folder or filepath.

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Indirectly you need connectionstring in dynamic.

Or you can do also

Make a page. On it's page load it will check that connectionstring file exists on that fixed location or not.
If file not exists then it will ask to enter ConnectionString on the start of application.
If file not exit then it will create a file there and write your connection string.

If file exist and connecitonstring exists then your first connectionstring asking page will not display.......

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