The xref:Microsoft.Data.SqlClient has a Connection object that inherits from xref:System.Data.Common.DbConnection as well as a provider-specific ...

A connection to a database is a resource intensive operation that typically comprises a few steps. A channel of communication between the application and the database should be established before the ...

In earlier versions of ADO.NET, compile-time checking of connection strings with concatenated string values didn't occur, so that at run time, an incorrect keyword generated an ...

I had been passing username/password strings directly into the ADO.NET connection string, however this means that if a user has a quote character in his password, it borks the ConnectionString and ...

describes the SqlConnection object and how to connect to a data base. Here are the objectives of this lesson: • Know what connection objects are used for. • Learn how to instantiate a SqlConnection ...