Charles,

If you're trying examples from Kevin's book, why don't you clue us in as to which chapter and which example ...

Thanks,
~~Bonnie


>Hi Kevin -
>
>Since this came up in the context of trying to run the C# winforms sample in your book I thought this might be a useful place to display my complete ignorance of all things SQL Server:
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>I have SQL2000 installed with (I believe) the default settings. The computer name is CHARLES. When I open Enterprise Manager I don't see CHARLES I see local. Can get in to Northwind etc. I have SQLServer loading on OS boot. Service manager shows server as CHARLES.
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>I run your C# winforms sample. When I try to launch the Orders form I get
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>An unhandled exception of type 'System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException' occurred in system.data.dll
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>Additional information: System error.
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>No source code link.
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>Left all connection string settings at default in Data.cs
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>Then tried changing server to CHARLES in that conneciton string. No joy.
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>I'm sure I'm missing something very obvious but with my level of SQL Server knowledge the obvious is obscure.
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>Guidance?
>
>TIA