Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...

Use custom-built .NET Framework 4.0 classes to connect an ASP.NET Web application to a SQL Server 2012 database. In my recent article, I showed how to connect .NET 4.0 C# and Visual Basic applications ...

The application assumes that SQL Server 2012 Express and Visual Studio 2010 are installed on the same computer. Since SQL Server has many deployment options, like editions, server locations and so on, ...