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[John Herron]

I am brand new to VB.Net - taking an online class by New Horizons. Having
trouble with my first lab. It tells me to go to "Server Explorer/Connect to
database" and enter the following:
localhost for server name
"Use Windows NT Integrated Security"
Northwind as the database.
Then press "Test Connection"

When I do this, I get
"Test Connection Failed because of an error in initializing provider.
[DBNETLIB][Connection open (connect()).] SQL server does not exist or access
denied"

Though my installation of VB.Net went smooth - this sounds like I don't have
something installed correctly. Any ideas what I have done wrong? If there is
a better place to ask these type of questions - where is it?

Thanks much
John

 

[Guest]

first, did u try to connect to the server using SQL Server Enterprise manager
or something? to check if the server is created already?
Hths..
R. Thomas