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 ...

Patch Tuesday fixes 137 vulnerabilities, including critical flaws in SQL Server, Netlogon, Office, and the .NET Framework.

According to everything I've read this is the correct connection string for an XLSX file. ... today I had to update a C# app I wrote 3 years ago that reads in an Excel file into a SQL Server table.

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 used, this must be adapted. To ...

If you're working in a code-first mode, this element eliminates the need for you to define a database and create a connection string for your DbContext object. Instead, the first time you access your ...

For this article, we're only going to be demonstrating SQL authentication. If your database is set up with Windows authentication, the code we're about to cover will not work. We'll first need to ...