Use custom-built .NET Framework 4.0 classes to connect an ASP.NET Web application to a SQL Server 2012 database.

Take advantage of connection resiliency in EF Core to detect errors and retry commands and enable your ASP.NET Core application to overcome transient faults.

Take advantage of the open source library Serilog to log your ASP.NET Core application’s data to SQL Server or another database target.

Q&A Get Started Using .NET Aspire with SQL Server & Azure SQL Database By David Ramel 01/23/2025 Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, ...

Untangle SQL Server connection strings Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools.

Microsoft released Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 3. This version is focused mainly on addressing community feedback and resolved almost 100 tickets. Additionally, there are some new features: an ...