Hello Sarim, On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 02:45 -0700, sarim shah wrote: > > SqlConnection v_objCon; > > > > v_objCon = new SqlConnection("Server=SVR-DB-SQL,1433;Initial > Catalog=TestDB;UserID=sa;Password=dbPass"); > Can you try <ip>,port in the connection string - instead of instance name? V. Varadhan