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How can I secure the communication between a C# program running locally on my computer and a SQL Server in a hosted environment?
I have an asp.net application that is secured by SSL encryption. So using the asp.net from an open wlan connection is no problem.
How can I achieve the same kind of encryption for my administrative tool? Would it be best to write a service? But how would that connection to the service be secured?
You should be able to simply specify encryption in the connection string like so:
This connection string uses the Native Client and a trusted connection but obviously can be adjusted for a SQL username and password.
For more, see the “Enable encryption for a specific client” section of this KB article. You have to ensure that the client has the server’s certificate in its Trusted Root Certification Authorities folder. Here is another article.