For this article, you should be using Visual Studio 2010 or later, and some version of SQL Server 2012 for the associated database. I used SQL Server 2012 Express. I'll first focus on the database and ...

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I did not need actual data; an empty copy of the latest database would suffice. I could easily add a few test records for the demonstration after installing the database on my laptop. I created a copy ...