I had been passing username/password strings directly into the ADO.NET connection string, however this means that if a user has a quote character in his password, it borks the ConnectionString and ...

Connecting Visual Basic to SQL databases gives your applications the ability to store, retrieve, and update information dynamically. By setting up the right environment, using ADO.NET for database ...

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 ...

Unfortunately, not every SQL database is always available when we expect it to be. When you're creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you ...

If you just want to get going with a code-first database, you don't even need to define a connection string -- just write your objects. After you install Entity Framework in your application, if you ...