The Connection Properties dialog opens. For my sample ITworld application, I changed the data source to Microsoft SQL Server (SQLClient), and entered the necessary Server, Log On, and database values.

In my recent article, I showed how to connect .NET 4.0 C# and Visual Basic applications to SQL Server 2012 databases using .NET classes.That article and its examples focused on .NET 4.0 desktop ...

As promised in part one, I developed a Visual Basic program to generate a SQL script that clears all the data from a SQL Server database (See Code Download for full source code and executable). The ...