Adding the Connection Control

In this step we add a Connection control to the Global.asax form, which is the form that acts as the ASP.NET application container.

To add a Connection control to your Global.asax form:

Drag-and-drop a Connection control from the Pick Data Web Extensions tab in the Toolbox to the Global.asax form.

NOTE–

Do not confuse this control with the Connection control found in the Toolbox under the Pick Data Provider tab. This control is used with Windows form applications only.
The Connection control does not have to be placed on this form. It can be added to any aspx form if connection non-persistency is required.

Set the properties for the Connection control from the Properties dialog box. In this tutorial, the properties are set as:

Connection	Database Property	Host Property	Password Property	User Property
Connection1	Demo_PickDP	localhost	admin	admin

Note that these are the same values set up in the Adding Servers section of this tutorial.

Right-click the Global.asax form to verify that the correct connection code has been inserted.