How to publish a visual CSharp project with a database on a client's PC

Publishing a visual sharp project with my SQL database on a client PC needs a few things to do. Publish a Visual C# project using the publishing feature in Visual Studio did not work properly.  Today I am going to show you how we can publish a visual C Sharp project with a database on the client missing. We can publish both online and offline databases but those have a major difference. 

Publish Visual C# project with an SQL server database (Offline)

We can publish the visual C Sharp projects with the SQL server database in offline mode. Users can easily edit update and delete information without usage of the internet. 

There are other things that we must know about offline publishing visor C Sharp project with sq server database. These things are: 

1. We don't need to install a complete SQL server database on the client side. A client-side is a person which is going to use our software.
2. We have to put the SQL database directly into the project folder. By doing this software can easily get SQL server database path and can work properly. 
3. There are other prerequisites needed to be installed on the client PC such as Dot Net Framework and other optional features. 

Publish Visual C# project with Database MySql (Online)

Publish visual C Sharp project with my SQL database is the online way to publish software. In this way, we don't need to include the database in the project folder because it will be available online. 

We just need to set up a strong database online connection with the software. The software will run online because all the quries will run through the internet.And datbase will be available on any mysql hosting.It can or cannot run offline at the developer's choice. 

How to publish Visual C# project with an SQL server database (Offline)

To publish a Visual C# project with an SQL server database offline on a client PC here is a complete tutorial. We need to do the following three steps.

1. Develop software with complete features as a client need 
2. Set up database connection 
3. Make setup installer software with database and prerequisites 
4. Install software on the client's PC 

1) Develop software with complete features as a client need 

Our first step is to develop a complete software with all features. Software users can also demand other features that we can update later with the same database connection and settings. In this way would you not need to change anything but with client requirements in changes. 

2) Set up database connection 

Our next important step is to set up the database connection. To set up a database connection with database first you need to build a database in any school server studio. In this login tutorial, I am going to use SQL server 14 with Visual Studio 2022. 

If you will face any of the issues in the SQL server the studio attachment it will be fixed automatically through the latest visual studio. And if your database version is not compatible with Visual Studio that you have then you can upgrade or change the version automatically. 

Here are a few things to establish a connection and SQL server database. 

1. First you need to create a database on the SQL server management studio 
2. Then test the SQL database with SQL server management studio, copy the database and paste it into the project bin > debug folder. 
3. Now open the database in Visual Studio in server Explorer 
4. In your software you have to build a strong database connection file and their you have to set up an SQL connection 
5. Open server explorer in Visual Studio and open the database file from Bin > debug folder in your project and test the connection. 
6. After successfully attaching of database right click on the database and connection properties. 
7. In database connection properties you have to copy the connection string and use this connection string in the connection file of your software project. 
8. Now you have to set up your database connection with the current directory path just like this.
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By doing this you can easily publish your software on the client site.

3) Make setup installer software with database and prerequisites 

Our third step is to make a software setup installer with a database and prerequisites. For this, you can use advanced installer software because it is amazing to publish any software.

There is a complete setup tutorial available here on how to make software setup with advanced installer software. 

In advanced installer software, you have to open the file and folder section and copy your database from your vision Studio project and paste it into it. Including this, you have to include SQL server 14 compact studio from the prerequisite. If you don't have the prerequisites option you can download SQL server compact Studio from here. 

After the complete setup now you can make set up the installer by clicking built from the left top corner. 

4) Install the software on the client's PC 

After the setup builds now you can copy this setup into the client's PC and install this software. The setup installer will automatically install SQL server compact studio with other prerequisites such as Dot Net Framework etc.