As the title suggests I'm quite confused about using mySQL in Visual Studio to produce a winforms app in C#.
I've saw many video tutorials where it shows you creating databases and tables etc and then creating a connection in order to obtain the data within it.
I have watched this video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w2JkLcp-UA and followed the instructions and have successfully created a table that I can edit, remove and add data too, which is what I want. But what's the difference between doing it this way, and the way where you have to connect to a server?
Also, I'm aiming to create a program that can be used in a retail environment, so the user can check stock, assign stock to an order, assign a customer to the order, then invoice the order. Obviously the stock would show that an item has been used, and a record against the customer of what they have brought, and then the user can view invoices to see who's brought what. Can that be achieved with the method I have used?