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# ASP.NET Web Pages - Adding a Database

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Part III: Adding a Database.

## What We Will Do

In this chapter we will:

- Create a web page to list data from a database

## Displaying Data from Database

With Web Pages, you can easily display data from a database.

You can connect to an existing database, or create a new database from scratch.

In this example we will connect to an existing SQL Server Compact database.

If you want to learn how to create a database for your web, please go to the chapter Web Database.

## Adding a Customers Page

In the "DemoWebPages" folder, create a new CSHTML file named "Customers.cshtml".

Replace the code in the file with the code from the example below:

## Customers.cshtml

@{Layout = "Layout.cshtml";
var db = Database.Open("Northwind");
var query = db.Query("SELECT CompanyName,City,Country FROM Customers");
}
<html>
<body>
<h1>Customers</h1>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>City</th>
<th>Country</th>
</tr>
@foreach(var row in query)
{
<tr>
<td>@row.CompanyName</td>
<td>@row.City</td>
<td>@row.Country</td>
</tr>
}
</table>
</body>
</html>
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## Database Connection

The Database.Open(name) method will connect to a database in two steps:

First, it searches the application's App_Data folder for a database that matches the name parameter without the file-name extension.

If no file is found, it looks for a "connection string" in the application's Web.config file.

(A connection string contains information about how to connect to a database. It can include a file path, or the name of an SQL database, with full user name and password)

This two-step search makes it possible to test the application with a local database, and run the application on a web host using a connection string.

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