title: SQL server name in hosts file
body: <p>I'm developing an ASP.NET application and we're using TFS for source control. Each time we need to change the "data source" in the connectionString to point to our local server during the development. I'm running SQLEXPRESS so I was writing .\SQLEXPRESS in the web.config file and it was working fine. Now we shouldn't modify the web.config file any more and will need to add a record into the hosts file to point the "data source" from the web.config file to my local machine's SQL server. Say, we have "DEVDATABASE" in the web.config as "data source", how should the hosts file line look like for that to work? Something like the following?</p>
  
  <p>.\SQLEXPRESS      DEVDATABASE</p>
  
  <p>This however does not work. Could anybody please help me to understand what's the way it should work? </p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>