Does anyone have a nice CLEAR (perhaps just a default.aspx and web.config) showing how to connect to a SQL Server 2000 database on GoDaddy's shared hosting? I have the whsql.... stuff and userID and password but, so far, I've not successfully actually reached the database from a default.aspx form -- even the simplest of grids that I tested out on the local system.
I've added a couple of tables to the standard ASP.NET database (on the theory -- is that true? -- that other things can co-exist there) and just want to toss the entries on the hosted database into the same grid. Here are the two ConnectionStrings:
<!--<add name="ConnectionString" connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|\ASPNETDB.MDF;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>--><
addname="ConnectionString"connectionString="Server=whsql-v16.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net Initial Catalog=DB_138***; User Id=*****; Password=*******; Trusted_Connection=False;"providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>where ***s have obliterated real things known to connect properly.
There is some confusion betwen "Initial Catalog=DB..." and "DATABASE=DB..." and GoDaddy support has unfortunately gone into a mode of (and here I quote!) "we are unable to assist with scripting support or debugging."
many mahalos (thanks) in advance from the garden isle of Kauai ... :) KevInKauai