Charles,

Arrrggghhh! I went to bed too early last night ... you solved your problem before I got a chance to reply! <g>

Glad you figured it out ...

~~Bonnie



>I'm glad I asked < g >
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>For benefit of anyone as ignorant as I am :
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>I was using Windows NT Verification - recommended but crunchy with the examples one mostly finds re connection strings.
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>Went to enterprise manager, right-clicked on icon for local server. On security tab changed Authentication from Windows Only to SQL Server and Windows
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>On the treeview in the left panel, again right clicking on local I was then able to change the Registration properties - this time changing from Use Windows Authentication to USE Sql Server Authentication.
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>Now all is well with Kevin's book sample and other things and examples re connection strings etc seem to be behaving as advertised.
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>Perhaps I'm the last person on earth to learn all this, but then again perhaps it will save some other hapless soul from my confusion.
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>( Great book Kevin - enjoying it very much. I being a VFE er ( a close cousin to the MM ers ) I am very fond of business objects and decoupling logic from presentation. You examples in this direction are very good and I am sure MM .NET is going to get a lot of folks involved in best practices on this stuff)