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Great resources. &nbsp;Thank you.
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I am exploring MS C# Express 2005 and have not been able to find a way in the IDE to connect to a SQL Server 2000 DB via ODBC. &nbsp;Is this supported? &nbsp;<br />
Given that it is a free IDE, I wouldn't be surprised if it is not, but I wouldn't mind some confirmation on that. If it is possible, how might I do it? &nbsp;We have a SQL 2000 server on our local network that &nbsp;I would love to read from...
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I am exploring MS C# Express 2005 and have not been able to find a way in the IDE to connect to a SQL Server 2000 DB via ODBC.  Is this supported?  
Given that it is a free IDE, I wouldn't be surprised if it is not, but I wouldn't mind some confirmation on that. If it is possible, how might I do it?  We have a SQL 2000 server on our local network that  I would love to read from...

Does MS C# Express support ODB connections to SQL 2000 servers?

C# is an object-oriented programming language created in conjunction with Microsoft’s .NET framework. Compilation is usually done into the Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL), which is then JIT-compiled to native code (and cached) during execution in the Common Language Runtime (CLR).