Beginning in SQL Server 2012, a lightweight version of SQL Server, called LocalDB, is available. This article discusses how to connect to a LocalDB database. For more information about LocalDB, ...

Microsoft SQL Server Express LocalDB is a feature of [!INCLUDE [ssexpress-md](../../includes/ssexpress-md.md)] targeted to developers. In [!INCLUDE [sssql25-md ...

Having recently set up an old desktop as a dev machine in order to avoid trashing my main computer with evaluation software (don't get me started), I decided it was time to try out Visual Studio 11 ...

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If you just want to get going with a code-first database, you don't even need to define a connection string -- just write your objects. After you install Entity Framework in your application, if you ...

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