I want to save checkboxlist data in a database. I created a table in SQL named 'tblSubject' and made connectionstring in web.config. However I still get the erorr :
NullReferenceException was unhandled by user code
object reference not set to an instance of an object.
This is the code in c#:
private void PopulateSubjects()
{
using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection())
{
conn.ConnectionString = ConfigurationManager
.ConnectionStrings["constr"].ConnectionString;
using (SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand())
{
cmd.CommandText = "select * from subjects";
cmd.Connection = conn;
conn.Open();
using (SqlDataReader sdr = cmd.ExecuteReader())
{
while (sdr.Read())
{
ListItem item = new ListItem();
item.Text = sdr["Subject"].ToString();
item.Value = sdr["Id"].ToString();
item.Selected = Convert.ToBoolean(sdr["IsSelected"]);
chbox.Items.Add(item);
}
}
conn.Close();
}
}
}
protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection())
{
conn.ConnectionString = ConfigurationManager
.ConnectionStrings["constr"].ConnectionString;
using (SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand())
{
cmd.CommandText = "update subjects set IsSelected = @IsSelected" +
" where Id=@Id";
cmd.Connection = conn;
conn.Open();
foreach (ListItem item in chbox.Items)
{
cmd.Parameters.Clear();
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@IsSelected", item.Selected);
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Id", item.Value);
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
}
conn.Close();
}
}
}
And in Web.config:
<connectionStrings>
<add name=" constr" connectionString="Data Source=(LocalDB)\MSSQLLocalDB;
Initial Catalog = dbtblSubject; Integrated Security = true" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
</connectionStrings>
Any help would be much appreciated.