Connecting to DB with Visual Basic 2008 express

Hi,
I did a test not long ago with some code from Beth Massi.
Search her blog, its full of goodness like that.
We even did some tests with VB to a remote Microsoft SQL Server that succeded.

This was an interesting, and very helpful, article of hers:
http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/archive/2008/09/17/enabling-remote-sql-express-2008-network-connections-on-vista.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/bb643826.aspx

 

Hi everybody,

I have been researching and working on trying to connect to my database with visual basic express 2008. I know it is not available on the IDE, however, I have been trying to find out if I can do it with code. Does anyone have any experience with this?

If not I have a DB on the server here with vwd express attached to it. the database is updated by users which i then take to run a program (game) on vb express. Each week updates are made by users to the database. So, basically right now I am stuck copying and pasting the updated db data to vb every week. You can see how being able to connect directly to the DB will save me much time and hassle.

Any help?