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 ...

browse to your local server through the "Server Explorer" tab in VS.NET. You should be able to view/generate a new connection string from there. I've noticed that localhost/ (local) didn't work for me ...

We have our SQL server configured to only allow Windows accounts (i.e. not mixed). However, in some cases we are connecting from non-domain boxes and we want to specify a domain account to connect to ...