Published: Tuesday, July 04, 2000
Creating Connection Strings in Windows 2000
By Björn Nilsson
In a former article, A Nifty Way to Create Connection Strings, Volker S.
pointed out a simple and fool-proof way of creating connection strings with a wizard built into Win98 and WinNT.
The way that is described in the original article doesn't work in Win2000 though. Here's a revised description of
how to do it, with some screen-shots and an example of how to create a DSN-less connection to an Access DB:
1.) Open up a (File)Explorer window in which you right-click and choose "New" -> "Text Document"
2.) Change the name of the newly created text document to some filename with the file ending ".udl". This will make it a "Universal Data Link" document.
3.) Now double-click the file, and a wizard will appear. This is where you tell which database etc. that you want to connect to.
Steps 4 through 6 are available in Part 2!
Read Part 2
