title: Connect to SQL Server named instance from Windows CE
body: <p>I have a working connection string I stole from my desktop application,</p>
  
  <pre><code>Data Source=Timber\Test2;User ID=****;Password=****;
  Initial Catalog=UTIL;Application Name=Handheld Shipping;Connect Timeout=1 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>which just connects to a named instance on SQL Server for testing. When I use the same connection string in my Windows CE application, I get a <code>SqlException</code>, Specified SQL server not found: Timber\Test2.</p>
  
  <p>Is this a limitation of the SQL client in .NET Compact? Or does the connection string need to be in a different format for the Compact client?</p>
  
  <p>The device I'm using is CE6.0 and my program is .NET Compact 3.5.</p>
  
  <p>EDIT:
  I'm connecting to a SQL Server 2008, on Server 2008. Connecting to the default instance works, just not the named instance.</p>