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 ...

You could also define this information in the Visual Basic code that specifies the connection string. Commonly, you can create the DSN with the ODBC Data Source Administrator, which you can access ...

I love the String object's Format method. It's an unusual application where I'm not using it to build messages. (Long ago and far away, I used to use it to assemble SQL statements.) Typical code looks ...

One greate way to debug your SQL statements is to place a breakpoint after the statement have been generated and copy and paste the concatinated string into a query analyzer.