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 ...

Below is a cheat sheet for creating SQL Server client connection strings and finding them in common configuration files. Connecting to instances by name, forcing a named pipes connection.

How to get connection string from web.config?the information required for the communication between application and a particular database is provided by connection string. the connectionstring is ...

We are moving to connecting to our sql server with an access token instead of a connection string. Previously, we had in the connection string a property "metadata" which referenced the compiled model ...

When creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you need to make sure your script can successfully connect to the database.

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.