VB Forum / Database Access / August 2007

I've been using Delphi for years (Win 32) and connecting to my SQL Server
databases with no problem.

I am now trying to learn bth VB and C#. (Visual studio 2005)

From the Data menu, I select Add New Data Source
I then choose Database
I select Microsoft SQL Server as the Data Source

The Add Connection Dialog appears
It populates the Server name dropdown with both of my SQL servers.

However, when I try to select a database name, the dropdown is never
populated and I get a TimeOut Expired (or server not responding) error.
This happens whether I use windows authentication or SQL server
authentication.
It also happend if I type in the name of a known database.

I suspect this has something to do with .net as opossed to Visual Studio.

Any help would be appreciated.

If this is the wrong newsgroup, I apologize.  It looked to be the most
promising.

Thanks,

Dave