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 ...

We have our SQL server configured to only allow Windows accounts (i.e. not mixed). However, in some cases we are connecting from non-domain boxes and we want to specify a domain account to connect ...

You can use SQL to create, modify, search, and display database information. Dynamic SQL lets you create a query string based off of user input. SQL Server allows you to create dynamic SQL statements.

In this third example, you use a DSN-less connection to connect to the data source. In this type of connection, you specify all necessary information (the driver, the server, the database name, and ...

As a starting point, there's nothing stopping you from selecting your database's connection in Server Explorer, copying the connection string from the Properties List and pasting it into your config ...