A .NET Application Within Visual Studio .NET

Just to give you a taste of what it is like creating applications in Visual Studio .NET and SQL Server 2000, let's build a simple Windows Forms .NET application. Our example will query customer contact names for customers in the Customers table of the Northwind SQL Server database. Of course, you must have already downloaded .NET and installed it before you can follow along with this example. In case you don't have .NET installed, I've provided enough figures here to give you a very good idea of what the process entails.

Creating a New Project in Visual Studio .NET

Following is a Visual Studio .NET project example that will query customer contact names for customers in the Customers table of the Northwind ...

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