Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX

CHAPTER 4 ■ DATA BINDING WITH ASP.NET 93
Earlier in this chapter, you saw how to create a connection to a database. If you’ve
already created a connection, you can select it in the SQL Server Connection wizard.
Alternatively, you can click the New Connection button to create a connection now. You
can also view the connection string for this connection in this dialog box. When you’re
happy with the connection, click Next to go to the application configuration selection
step, where you can specify what to call the connection string in your Web.config file (see
Figure 4-21).
Figure 4-21. Saving the connection string
The next step in the wizard is very powerful, enabling you to specify a custom SQL
statement or stored procedure, filter an existing table, or drill down to a viewable set of
records. You can see this page in Figure 4-22.