Use custom-built .NET Framework 4.0 classes to connect an ASP.NET Web application to a SQL Server 2012 database.

Take advantage of the open source library Serilog to log your ASP.NET Core application’s data to SQL Server or another database target.

How to connect .NET Core Console application to SQL server database and read table data. This blogpost explains how to connect .NET Core Console application to SQL server database and read table data.

Message: Unable to connect to SQL Server session database. Trace: at System.Web.SessionState.SqlSessionStateStore.ThrowSqlConnectionException(SqlConnection conn, Exception e) ...

The Connection Properties dialog opens. For my sample ITworld application, I changed the data source to Microsoft SQL Server (SQLClient), and entered the necessary Server, Log On, and database values.