Connecting to a database server

Question

There is a database server at IP address 192.168.1.11. There are several databases on that server. It has authentication, like user : System and pass : 123123 .

Now I want to connect to this server only, not any particular database, and then get a list of databases available on that server.

I know the normal procedure of connecting to a database with SqlConnection. But I'm wondering how I could just get connected to the server and get the list of the databases on that server.

I am using Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server 2008-

Answer 1

run this query on a Method

SELECT [name] 
FROM master.dbo.sysdatabases 
WHERE dbid > 4 

or by

String connString ="Data Source=localhost;User ID=username;Password=passwrd;";

        using (SqlConnection sqlConn = new SqlConnection(connString))
        {
            sqlConn.Open();
            DataTable tblDatabases = sqlConn.GetSchema("Databases");
            sqlConn.Close();
            DataTable td = tblDatabases.Select("dbid>6").CopyToDataTable();
         }