This is a very short code snippet where I will explain how to list the SQL Server instances that are installed on your machine and on the network connected to your machine.
Namespaces
You will need to import the following namespaces
C#
using System.Data;
using System.Data.Sql;
VB.Net
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Data.Sql
SqlDataSourceEnumerator class
The SqlDataSourceEnumerator class allows you to get the Instances of the SQL Server installed on the machine and also on the network the machine is connected to. You can find more information on the same on the following MSDN article
Now here I’ll get the installed instances of the SQL Server and bind them to a DropDownList Control
C#
DataTable dt = SqlDataSourceEnumerator.Instance.GetDataSources();
foreach (DataRow dr in dt.Rows)
{
ddlInstances.Items.Add(string.Concat(dr["ServerName"], "\\", dr["InstanceName"]));
}
VB.Net
Dim dt AsDataTable = SqlDataSourceEnumerator.Instance.GetDataSources
ForEach dr As DataRow In dt.Rows
ddlInstances.Items.Add(String.Concat(dr("ServerName"), "\\", dr("InstanceName")))
Next
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That’s it in this article. Hope you liked it.