This is probably a stupid mistake of me.. but I can\'t seem to understand it.
I\'ve created a new, empty C# Windows Forms application.
I added a Database (Based
Your database file is listed in the project with this property
Copy to destination directory = Copy Always
If this is true then every time you restart the project a fresh (empty) copy of the database file is copied from the project directory to the output directory (BIN\DEBUG or BIN\RELEASE) overwriting the database file used in the previous run. You could avoid this changing the property to Copy Never
or Copy if newer