A better way to clone and update a table to MS Access?

[newnauk]

Hello,

I have written an app that does a deep clone copy from an MS Access database, migrates and inserts the data to another.

The following is my current implementation:
..........
1. I'm using the strongly typed DataSet classes code-gened by VS2008 when you add an OleDb (MS Access) data source.
2. "DestDataSe t" and SrcDataSet share the same schema.
..........

private void copy(DestDataSet dsDest, SrcDataSet dsSrc)
{
    for (int i = 0; i < dsSource.TableA.Count; i++)
    {
        DestDataSet.TableARow rowDest = dsDest.TableA.NewTableARow();
        
        if (!((SrcDataSet.TableARow)dsSrc.TableA.Rows[i]).IsCol1Null())
           rowDest.Col1 = ((SrcDataSet.TableARow)dsSrc.TableA.Rows[i]).Col1;

        // repeat for Col2,..., Coln

        dsDest.TableA.Rows.Add(rowDest);
    }

    try
    {
        DestDataSetTableAdapters.TableAAdapter adpA = new DestDataSetTableAdapters.TableAAdapter();
        
        adpA.Update(dsDest.TableA);
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
    }
}

Is there a better way of populating the row? I've tried using

foreach (SrcDataSet.TableARow row in dsSrc.TableA.Rows)
    dsDest.TableA.ImportRow(row);

dsDest.AcceptChanges();

but adpA.Update() after the loop does not seem to insert the data into the Db even though there was no runtime execption.

Thanks!

[Aimee Bailey]

Why dont you just use a query? in SQL all you need to do is use one, and i believe it can be done in Access also, documentation can be found here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...ffice.12).aspx

Best of luck :)

Aimee