Demonstrates configuring the connection timeout when connecting to Cloud SQL for SQL Server using the ADO.NET Connection object.

## Explore further


For detailed documentation that includes this code sample, see the following:

- [Manage database connections](https://docs.cloud.google.com/sql/docs/sqlserver/manage-connections.md.txt)

## Code sample

### C#


To authenticate to Cloud SQL for SQL Server, set up Application Default Credentials.
For more information, see

[Set up authentication for a local development environment](https://docs.cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/set-up-adc-local-dev-environment.md.txt).

```c#
// ConnectionTimeout sets the time to wait (in seconds) while
// trying to establish a connection before terminating the attempt.
connectionString.ConnectTimeout = 15;
```

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