If you just want to get going with a code-first database, you don't even need to define a connection string -- just write your objects. After you install Entity Framework in your application, if you ...

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LocalDB is a lightweight version of [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] which has been available since [!INCLUDEssSQL11]. This topic discusses how to connect to a database in a LocalDB instance. For more ...