For this article, you should be using Visual Studio 2010 or later, and some version of SQL Server 2012 for the associated database. I used SQL Server 2012 Express. I'll first focus on the database and ...

In my column last month, "Simplifying Development with Database Projects," I described how to create a Visual Studio database project and I promised that it would make managing changes to your ...

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 ...