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OK I open VS 2005 and create a new website add a dropdownlist to the wwebpage and call it cboCountries. Then I open the code behind and add Imports System.Data.SqlClient Then in the Form1_Load I add: Dim sConnection As String = "Data Source=REDMACHINE;Initial Catalog=Northwind;User ID=csInfo;Password=csInfo;" Dim sSQL As String = "SELECT DISTINCT Country FROM Customers ORDER BY Country" Dim comm As SqlCommand = New SqlCommand(sSQL, New SqlConnection(sConnection)) Dim dr As SqlDataReader = Nothing Try comm.Connection.Open() dr = comm.ExecuteReader
While dr.Read cboCountries.Items.Add(dr(0))
End While Catch ex As Exception Return End Try dr.Close() comm.Connection.Close()
I run the app and everything works great a dropdownlist is on the page and has all the countries loaded in it. Then I do the exact same thing only this time I use Windows Mobile 6 Professional Device Application. I open VS2005 add a new project and new Windows Mobile 6 Professional Device Application. I add a ComboBox to the device's form, I call it cboCountries. Then I added a Reference to Systme.Data.SqlClient and then added the Imports System.Data.SqlClient to the top of the code behind page. Then I added the same code as above:
Dim sConnection As String = "Data Source=REDMACHINE;Initial Catalog=Northwind;User ID=csInfo;Password=csInfo;" Dim sSQL As String = "SELECT DISTINCT Country FROM Customers ORDER BY Country" Dim comm As SqlCommand = New SqlCommand(sSQL, New SqlConnection(sConnection)) Dim dr As SqlDataReader = Nothing Try comm.Connection.Open() dr = comm.ExecuteReader
While dr.Read cboCountries.Items.Add(dr(0))
End While Catch ex As Exception
Return End Try dr.Close() comm.Connection.Close()
But when I run this I get an error say "The Specified SQL Server not found:REDMACHINE" My computer is named REDMACHINE and both VS2005 and SQL 2000 sit on REDMACHINE. If I change REDMACHINE to (local) I get the error "SQL Server does not exist or access is denied" Please help I don't know what I am doing wrong. Thanks Matt
