1. Adding Record To Your Database
Lesson 11
Adding Record To Your Database

2. Adding Records
Create a new page and call it AddRecords.aspx

3. Add to your workspace area
Type and center More Movie Data:
On the left side of the workspace type the following:
Enter Movie Name:
Enter Actor:
Enter Actress:
Enter Director:
Enter Release Date:
Enter Rating:
Enter MPAA:
Enter Run Time:

4. Add Textbox
Drag a TextBox and place it to the right of field names you just entered (Use Absolute Position found under the Layout menu for placement

5. Add a button
Drag a button and place in the middle

6. Label Message Drag a Label and place it below the button
On the label properties, do the following:
To the right of ID type labelMessage
Select Fore Color to be Red
Aside of Text Delete the word Label

7. Adding ButtonEvent Code
Click on Code View
Drag an INSERT Data Method
Select the Movies Database and click OK
Click Next and name the Method AddMovieRecord

8. Insert Code Go back to Design View and double click the button
Before the End Sub type
Dim MovieName As String
Dim Actor As String
Dim Actress As String
Dim Director As String
Dim ReleaseDate As DateTime
Dim Rating As String
Dim MPAA As String
Dim RunTime As String
You have just created variables for all your fields used in the database

9. More Code To Add MovieName= Server.HtmlEncode (TextBox1.Text)
Actor= Server.HtmlEncode (TextBox2.Text)
Actress= Server.HtmlEncode (TextBox3.Text)
Director= Server.HtmlEncode (TextBox4.Text)
ReleaseDate= Server.HtmlEncode (TextBox5.Text)
Rating= Server.HtmlEncode (TextBox6.Text)
MPAA= Server.HtmlEncode (TextBox7.Text)
RunTime= Server.HtmlEncode (TextBox8.Text)

10. Server.HtmlEncode Coversion
For the variables you created you must then pass the information to those variables with this conversion
Remember the AddMovieRecord method you created? This is now going to be used in your code

11. Passing Values To Your Database
Continue to type this code:
Try
AddMovieRecord (MovieName, Actor, Actress, Director, ReleaseDate, Rating, MPAA, RunTime)
labelMessage.Text= "Your movie record has been updated, Thanks"
Button1.Enabled = False
Catch
labelMessage.Text= "Please submit again there was an error"
End Try

12. Error Checking Code The Try-Catch block is for error checking
You can see the two messages that were created and will be displayed in entries were successful or unsuccessful

13. Entering Records Press F5 and load the new page
Enter the following record to your Movie database

14. Update
You can see that your movie record has been updated successfully
For now you can go back to Web Matrix and click on data and view the updated JamesBondSeries Table with you your new record