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 ...

In this third example, you use a DSN-less connection to connect to the data source. In this type of connection, you specify all necessary information (the driver, the server, the database name, and ...