As a follow-on, this article will use the technique to tie ASP.NET C# and Visual Basic applications to a SQL Server 2012 database. This article assumes Visual Studio 2010 or later, and some version of ...

Microsoft Access 1.1+ and Visual Basic 3.0+ quickly became my front ends of choice for Microsoft and Sybase SQL Server 6+, as well as DB2. "Sphinx" (the codename for SQL Server 7.0), OLE DB, and ADO ...

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.

I don't know if you're using SQL Server as your backend, but the idea is to spit out the query string you're submitting and try running it somwhere outside your code.

Microsoft rolled out another round of prerelease versions of Visual Studio 2005, .Net Framework 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 as it strives to hit its revised ship dates during the second half of the year.