When trying to connect to SQL Server running in a Docker container in WSL I am unable to connect using localhost as the server name. I can, however, connect using 127.0.0.1 or ::1. The application is ...

I had a complicated issue yesterday. I upgraded my EF Core version form 3.x to 5.x in a project (.Net core 3.1). When I did that, the old Connection string which uses the ip address 127.0.0.1 of ...

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 ...

It may not be immediately obvious, but you cannot set your own connection string properties when connecting to SQL Server using the built-in SQL Server connector from either Power BI or a modern data ...