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 ...

To test a SQL database connection, you'll need at least four pieces of information ... the code we're about to cover will not work. We'll first need to create an ODBC string. This is the string we'll ...

Microsoft provides instructions. Please note that Integrated Security=false was set in the connection string used above, as the example uses SQL Server Authentication. If Windows Authentication is ...