Microsoft has open sourced a .NET 5 C# Language Extension for SQL Server, allowing developers to work with relational data in the company's flagship programming language.

This article assumes Visual Studio 2010 or later, and some version of SQL Server 2012. It describes sample ASP.NET C# and VB.net applications, each built with the .NET 4.0 framework.

Untangle SQL Server connection strings Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools.

I know you can install Windows 11 for ARM in Parallels and then run Visual Studio and SQL Server on top of that (with ARM-x64 emulation, I guess?), but IIS support was missing last I checked.

Overall, .Net with C# is a well-thought-out platform for building apps in the MVC style, and HTMX gives us low-overhead Ajax. Check out the csharp-htmx application repository to see all the code ...

Microsoft has released .NET Core 3.0 for Windows, macOS, and Linux with a host of improvements, as well as Visual Studio 2019 16.3 and Visual Studio for Mac 8.3.