.Net client connecting to SQL 2005 with wrong provider

Question

I am trying to connect to a database on a server from a developer machine. The server has the named pipes protocol disabled. For some reason from one developer\'s box we get t

Answer 1

You can try to run the command "CliConfg.exe" and set the default protocol to "TCP/IP"

Answer 2

From Win98 clients and ADO, we used to force TCPIP on the connection by adding this to the connection string: Network Library=dbmssocn;

On XP, you can do the same with: Network Library=TCPIP;

Not sure if this is still supported or encouraged by M$ for ADO.Net connections.