Visual Studio Magazine

Write .NET Code in SQL Server

Technology Toolbox: VB.NET, C#, SQL Server "Yukon" All versions of SQL Server prior to SQL Server "Yukon" provide two ways to write procedural code that executes inside the database. The usual way is ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Database Dev With SQL Server Express, VB 2005

Do you want to start quickly developing WinForms-based database applications? The VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Express combination offers many new features and tools to help you quickly build ...
Ars Technica

Speeding up SQL/VB.NET application.

I have written an application that takes in a fixed-width file (thanks in no small part to advice I recieved in a seperate thread) and then dissasembles each line, runs a fairly meaty SQL SELECT query ...
Ars Technica

Using PocketPC / SQL Server with VB.Net

Ok, I'm thinking of writing an application that would be used on PocketPC devices. Written in VB.Net to use the Windows CE OS. I want some sort of database capability on the device, but I don't have ...
Computerworld

How to create SQL Server connection strings in Visual Studio

Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...