Finding SQL Server

[Marco Martin]

Good Morning,

I've created an application That uses SQL Server as its data source. I am
now trying to create the Setup program. How can I go about finding the SQL
server which is on a network, or letting the user point to it during setup?
Is this possible, or do I need to create another project that would run
first *during* setup? During development, I wrote the connection string to
the registry. Now my problem is to find the sql server instance the client
wishes to use, and run a script which will create all necessary tables and
write the proper connection string to the registry.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

regards,
Marco

 

[Scott]

See
http://www.codeproject.com/cs/database/LocatingSql.asp?target=sql|servers.
Works great.

Scott

I've created an application That uses SQL Server as its data source. I am
now trying to create the Setup program. How can I go about finding the SQL
server which is on a network, or letting the user point to it during

setup?

 

[Marco Martin]

Scott,

Thanks, that was exacly what I needed

regards,

Marco