Where are you connection from, and how are you specifying the name of the server?

If connection from a different machine than where the server is installed, then you'll need to...

As with all beta (or pre-release software from Microsoft), it will expire at some time. After all, why on earth would you want to run the beta of a...

When installing MSDE, I believe that there is a command line option to allow/disallow network connections to the database (found it: DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOL). The default if not provided is to...

No need to do it in a stored procedure. If you use Windows Authentication on the database, then you can use Trusted Connections. This means that your Win32...

Use the Application Configuration Block from the Microsoft Enterprise Library.  It comes with a tool to manage configuration files, and the config files can be really easily encrypted. 

See here...

Remember that the DataGrid needs to be "re-bound" to the datasource if you are doing any alterations to the base data.  This is why the 30-odd records are showing up...

Or, run the proc from a thread (in whatever program it is being called from).

Actually, I've been using pass-phrases lately.

They usually meet the complexity requirements (of, say, Windows 2003 Server's default policy), can be quite long and are easy to remember.

It is becoming a...

...until something goes wrong.  Then, who do you turn to?  At least with closed-source, you'd have someone to go to directly.

With open-source, the onus is always on you.

This is the...

I really think that open-source software isn't the right move for many companies.

Take myself as an example: my time needs to be spent building software applications that I can sell to...

Is this a text box, or a rich text box, or even a custom control?  What type of formatting are you talking about (as in, HTML markup, RTF, etc)?

If you're...