Microsoft has open sourced a .NET 5 C# Language Extension for SQL Server, allowing developers to work with relational data in the company's flagship programming language.

This article assumes Visual Studio 2010 or later, and some version of SQL Server 2012. It describes sample ASP.NET C# and VB.net applications, each built with the .NET 4.0 framework.

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 ...

Combine .Net with C# and HTMX for a streamlined development process that yields a dynamic front end without writing a line of JavaScript.

Really all I’m interested in is this: I want to take exactly what I do now – run Visual Studio, SQL Server, and IIS in a Windows VM on my Intel MacBook Pro – and do the exact same thing, but ...