August 1, 2006
A quick and easy way to prepare a SQL Server database for use in an ASP.NET application: Browse to and execute aspnet_reqsql.exe, which is located at: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\VersionOf.NETFramework\. Choose to “Configure SQL Server for application services” when prompted. Specify the server, instance name, database name, and the username and password of a database user with the [...]
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July 19, 2006
This may be obvious to most, but being new to ASP.NET – and relatively new to programming in general – I found it difficult to connect my ASP.NET application to a SQL Server instance. Looking at the available documentation, connecting should be easy. You simply create a connectionStrings element in your application’s web.config file and [...]
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