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.

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Next, we need to create a SQLConnection object. We'll do this by passing the connection string as an argument to it. Once the object is created, we then can call the Open () method to attempt the ...

Note that the connection string in this example is retrieved from a configuration file — it is a good practice to isolate the connection string from your application’s code.