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 ...

In .NET Core applications, the default connection string provider implementation searches the appsettings.json file in the current directory and reads connection strings from the file’s ...

It is unsound to put the connection string as literals in your C# code. It is better to put the connection string in a config file. There you can edit the string any time without the need to recompile ...

Firstly, we need a connection string to connect to database.This connection string contain the information about the server to which we are going to connect. Now, we have to create an instance of the ...

As I understand it if you are using mirroring on SQL server and have failover setup you can adjust the connection strings of your applications that use it so they know the name of the other server ...

It may not be immediately obvious, but you cannot set your own connection string properties when connecting to SQL Server using the built-in SQL Server connector from either Power BI or a modern data ...

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 ...

Please note that Integrated Security=false was set in the connection string used above, as the example uses SQL Server Authentication. If Windows Authentication is used, this must be adapted. To ...