Creating a Poll System in C#

Introduction

Here I show a simple way to develop a Polling/Survey System. It shows results with percentage of votes in a graphical manner. I have used RadioButtonList to show poll options to select one option.

DataBase Diagram

I have three tables one for question, second for offered answers and third one is to store answer selected by user.

Insert Poll and Options

SP for insert a Poll and various options/Answers.

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[insQues]

 @ques varchar(350),

 @other varchar(250)

  as

BEGIN

SET NOCOUNT ON;

update tblQues set status=0;

insert into tblQues (qText,other) values(@ques,@other);

END

 

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[insAnswers]

@anstext varchar(450)

as

BEGIN

SET NOCOUNT ON;

declare @qid int

select @qid=MAX(qid) from tblQues;

insert into tblQuesAns (qID,anstext) values(@qid,@anstext);

END

Here I input options/answers in one text box and split it by ';' to seperate various options:
 

SqlCommand cmdins = ff.getCommand("insQues");

cmdins.Parameters.AddWithValue("@ques", txtQues.Text);

cmdins.Parameters.AddWithValue("@other", txtOther.Text);

cmdins.ExecuteNonQuery();

//we have to insert each answer so split it by ; to seperate answer

String[] ans = txtAns.Text.Split(new String[] { ";" }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

foreach (string ss in ans)

{

     cmdins = ff.getCommand("insAnswers");

     cmdins.Parameters.AddWithValue("@anstext", ss);

     cmdins.ExecuteNonQuery();

}

cmdins.Connection.Close();

Showing graphical Results

To show results graphically for quick analysis,I have used StringBuilder and calculate percentage as

 no. of votes of respective answers*100/total no of votes

and now I set an image within td and width of this image is this percentage.

See above Image 2

Point of interest

Here I want to fetch answers and the total number of answers count from the tblQuesAns table. So I use an output parameter:
 

CREATE PROC [dbo].[selectResults]

(

@qid int,

@b int output

)

AS

BEGIN

select anstext,anscount from tblQuesAns where qID=@qid;

set @b=(select sum(anscount) from tblQuesAns where qID=@qid);

END

Now how to fetch value of @b in C#:

 

SqlCommand cmd = ff.getCommand("selectResults");

cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@qid", qid);

SqlParameter sp = cmd.Parameters.Add("@b", SqlDbType.Int);

sp.Direction = ParameterDirection.Output;

cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

int total = int.Parse(cmd.Parameters["@b"].Value.ToString());

SqlDataReader dr = cmd.ExecuteReader();

 

Download the source file to see the detailed description of this.

Future Scope

This has limitation to select only one option So I will modify this with option of RadioButtonList and CheckBoxList both, and change to this in Custom Control to make it useful.

Thank You for Reading.