Hi Guys,

I am using the example as a starting point for adding a record to a db and getting a id back for new record inserted.

I ran in to problems with Convert.ToInt32(cmd.ExecuteScalar()) not returning anything. heres a tip I fixed it by adding "SELECT @@IDENTITY AS 'Identity';" to the insert SQL statement. It now works :D

anyway back to the problem at hand.

I want to log if something goes wrong with the transaction but where do I declare tools?

The Tools.log is not declared and I cannot find where it is neither.

I am using VS.net 2005 Pro.

Cheers

Hi, I tried to play around with your select statement, but couldn't get it working. Could you please write it in full? cheers

ninjamonk,

It might be wiser to use scope_identity() rather than @@identity especially for a shopping cart. Consider the case where two customers are online and create an order at the same time. @@identity just returns the id of the latest row created in a table. The two customers could both get the same id as a result. scope_identity() makes sure that this doesn't happen.

So use SELECT SCOPE_IDENTITY() as 'Identity' instead.

There's more on this here http://discuss.fogcreek.com/dotnetqu...ow&ixPost=6315 but just googling for scope_identity and @@identity will return lots of pages about this issue.

I'll post again about the Tools question in a minute

Dan Maharry
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ninjamonk,

The simplest way to get Tools working is to add Tools.vb from the FinalApplication folder for the book into your App_Code folder.

I'm not sure if it's an error in the book or just missing from the download but I'm sure you've noticed that in the End folder for Chapter 13 the calls to Tools.Log that are in the book aren't in the code.

Hope that helps, Dan

Dan Maharry
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