Database connectivity gives desktop and Web applications much of their value. .NET developers have products and framework objects that can tie a front-end application to SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, ...

Peter learns something by listening to readers: Visual Studio database projects provide a great environment for making changes to your databases. Here's a brief introduction about how they'll make ...

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.

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

SQL Server Data Tools has upgraded from Microsoft.Data.SQLClient 3.0 to 5.0. The new version has support for TDS 8.0, support for specifying Server SPN and Failover Server SPN on the connection.

Really all I’m interested in is this: I want to take exactly what I do now – run Visual Studio, SQL Server, and IIS in a Windows VM on my Intel MacBook Pro – and do the exact same thing, but ...