When I was putting together the Data Dictionary Creator program, I needed to allow users to input a connection string. A lot of winform applications that require data connections give you a textbox and tell you to figure it out yourself, but I really wanted to show a prompt that let you test your connections...

If you've ever had to execute one or more SQL scripts from ADO.NET, you've likely run into the GO batch terminator issue. Any SQL script that does anything worthwhile has more than one batch, separated by a GO terminator. The problem is that "GO" isn't valid T-SQL, it's just...

If you've ever had to execute one or more SQL scripts from ADO.NET, you've likely run into the GO batch terminator issue. Any SQL script that does anything worthwhile has more than one batch, separated by a GO terminator. The problem is that "GO" isn't valid T-SQL, it's just...

When I was putting together the Data Dictionary Creator program, I needed to allow users to input a connection string. A lot of winform applications that require data connections give you a textbox and tell you to figure it out yourself, but I really wanted to show a prompt that let you test your connections...