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 ...

Does Visual Studio Connect To Sql Server? Starting a new project in Visual Studio and opening Server Explorer from the Toolsbox or by choosing View > Server Explorer is how you can connect to your SQL ...

In my recent article, I showed how to connect .NET 4.0 C# and Visual Basic applications to SQL Server 2012 databases using .NET classes. That article and its examples focused on .NET 4.0 desktop ...

Database connectivity gives desktop and Web applications much of their value. .NET developers have products and framework objects that can tie a front-end application to SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, ...

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 28, 2003 — Kicking off the second day of the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2003, Microsoft Corp. gave PDC attendees prerelease versions of Visual Studio, ...

Microsoft rolled out Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk 2006 as an integrated application platform that fulfills the long-seeded aims of .NET ...