Invalid attempt to access field before calling read()

Question

I have searched for a good couple hours now, looking for a solution to this problem. I am trying to get information from my database using the code below with the correct qu

Answer 1

Not sure if this is the problem in your case, but you should always check the result of Read(). eg

if (myReader.Read())
{
  statement = myReader.GetString(0);
}

Edit: Also what you are actually doing is retrieving a scalar, and as such you could use ExecuteScalar()

return (myCommand.ExecuteScalar() ?? string.Empty).ToString();
//also rename your method appropriately