Question

I have three computer in a office and I have installed my C#-2005 Project on all three

computers. But Problem is that Boss wants Sql-server-2000 on One PC out of three and other

would share the same.

I don’t know how to share Sql-server-2000 between three PC?. How to do?.

Confusion:-

Thanks for your co-operation but here I have a confusion on majority people said to check

TCP/IP address and consider the Connection string as per main server from client PC.

Suppose I have financial project and there would be thousand of connection string in a

project. As per above I have to change thousand of connection string as per main pc.

Now think it is a one customer’s need If I have ten cutomer having same offer than think How much time I have to waste on it?. I have to modify thousand of connection string ten time more?.

If it is true than it will take lots of time on installation to each customer.

I don’t know if it is only way?.

The Connection string I have utilized on my each winform is as below:

string connstr = "server=.;initial catalog=maa;uid=mah;pwd=mah";
SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(connstr);
conn.Open();

Here suggested about Config File and same I don’t know if some body give me idea about how to consider it with my C#2005 project than it will save my lots time.

Answer 1

When you connect to the database in your code, you’ll need a database connection string of some sort somewhere in there. Figure out the connection string for the Database server and set your code to point to that database server’s connection info; I bet you currently you have it pointed at localhost

If you’re using SQL Server you may need to enable remote connections on the database server.

added: you may need to modify firewall settings as well to allow SQL Server traffic (thanks Jared)

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Edit: For putting the configuration string into a central location.

Your posted code

string connstr = "server=.;initial catalog=maa;uid=mah;pwd=mah";
SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(connstr);
conn.Open();

Change to

Assuming your application has a App.Config file then you’d add an entry in there like

<add key="DBConnectionString" value="server=.;initial catalog=maa;uid=mah;pwd=mah"/>

And change your C# code to be like

string connstr = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["DBConnectionString"];
SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(connstr);
conn.Open();

Putting the ConfigManager call into a class might be a good idea if you have a lot of settings to retrieve and/or believe the configuration storage methodology might change down the road. Going with the above example is WAY better than having the string literal scattered throughout your code.