This is a simple ADO.NET database application that returns results from a database table, writes the output to a DataGrid and TextBoxes, and uses Buttons (First, Previous, Next, Last) to navigate through the records.
After getting lots of responses and suggestions from the users, I changed some points and made the code more readable. Like everyone else I also searched for a most requested method in MSDN Library to trap the keystrokes (Up, Down, Esc...) in Windows Forms and included it in the code because some users asked me desperately for that. You can find the other requested methods as well to get the contents of a cell/row in a DataGrid.
I chose Microsoft Access database (as reflected in the ADO.NET OleDb objects) because it's easy to use and you don't need to have Microsoft SQL Server running. But ADO.NET is highly optimized if you are working with Microsoft SQL Server databases (as reflected in the ADO.NET Sql objects).
I have now added a second part to this project (Personal Address Book) on Database Manipulation with ADO.NET for beginners where you can do data manipulation in TextBoxes (Delete, Save/Update, Add).
