Microsoft has open sourced a .NET 5 C# Language Extension for SQL Server, allowing developers to work with relational data in the company's flagship programming language.

This article assumes Visual Studio 2010 or later, and some version of SQL Server 2012. It describes sample ASP.NET C# and VB.net applications, each built with the .NET 4.0 framework.

Untangle SQL Server connection strings Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools.

Combine .Net with C# and HTMX for a streamlined development process that yields a dynamic front end without writing a line of JavaScript.

I know you can install Windows 11 for ARM in Parallels and then run Visual Studio and SQL Server on top of that (with ARM-x64 emulation, I guess?), but IIS support was missing last I checked.