Sams Teach Yourself Visual C++® .NET in 24 Hours

Connecting to the Data Source

For this lesson, you will be using a database that is installed by default when you install Internet Information Services (IIS) in Windows 2000 and Windows XP. If you do not have IIS installed, you should either install it now or use the database contained within the code for this hour, which can be downloaded from the Sams Web site. The database itself contains only a single table. Within this table are records corresponding to several author names and the years they were born. There is also an associated ID for each of the authors. If you have IIS installed, you can open the database in Microsoft Access, which is a part of Microsoft Office. By default, the database is located in the IIS folder in the iissamples\sdk\asp\database ...