Connecting to Microsoft SQL Server
This chapter will assume you have a running instance of Microsoft SQL Server either on your local machine, as part of Visual Studio 2012, or on a remote machine with access permissions as shown in the following screenshot:
The steps for connecting to Microsoft SQL Server are as follows:
- Navigate to VIEW | Server Explorer.
- Right-click on Data Connections, and choose Add connection.
- Select Microsoft SQL Server (SqlClient) as the Data Source.
- Choose the local machine if you have Microsoft SQL Server installed locally.
- Select Use Windows Authentication.
- Specify the name of the database. From now on, we'll refer to our database ...
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