Increase your application's flexibility and make the installation simpler by connecting to the database without generating a DSN in the ODBC Data Source Administrator. Instead, use VB code to ...

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 ...

Squash the dangers lurking in your SQL queries by setting parameters by way of parameterized queries.

A new database-oriented tool in Visual Studio Team System will let programmers more easily make, test changes to database designs.