Add and Reload New Items in the ListBox

We will know how to insert records to database and show one column of inserted items into a listbox. Here we use two textboxes, button and a ListBox. And after adding items it is automatically loaded to the ListBox.

using System; 

using System.Collections.Generic; 

using System.ComponentModel;

using System.Data; 

using System.Drawing;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Windows.Forms;

using System.Data.SqlClient;

 

namespace After_add_new_item_reload_listbox

    public partial class Form1 : Form

    { 

        SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(@"server = HOME-SAT/SQLEXPRESS;data source = .; initial catalog = test; user id=sa;pwd =pintu ;integrated security = SSPI");

 

        SqlCommand com;

        SqlDataAdapter sqlda;

        DataSet ds;

        string str;

        DataTable dt;  

        public Form1()

        { 

            InitializeComponent(); 

        }

 

        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

        { 

            listboxbind(); 

        }   

        private void listboxbind()

        { 

            con.Open(); 

            str = "select * from employee"

            com = new SqlCommand(str, con); 

            sqlda = new SqlDataAdapter(com); 

            ds = new DataSet(); 

            sqlda.Fill(ds, "employee"); 

            dt = ds.Tables["employee"];

            listBox1.DisplayMember = "empid"

            listBox1.ValueMember = "empname"

            listBox1.DataSource = ds.Tables["employee"]; 

            con.Close(); 

        }

 

        private void btn_add_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

        { 

            com = new SqlCommand(); 

            com.Connection = con 

            com.CommandType = CommandType.Text; 

            com.CommandText = "insert into employee values(@empid,@empname)"

            com.Parameters.Clear(); 

            com.Parameters.AddWithValue("@empid", txt_id.Text); 

            com.Parameters.AddWithValue("@empname", txt_name.Text); 

            if (con.State == ConnectionState.Closed) 

                con.Open(); 

            com.ExecuteNonQuery(); 

            con.Close(); 

            MessageBox.Show("Data entered successfully!!!"); 

            listboxbind(); 

            clear(); 

        } 

        private void clear()

        { 

            txt_id.Text = ""

            txt_name.Text = ""

        } 

    } 

} 

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