How to connect an existing strongly-typed data set to a different server at run time?

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I am coding a simple space empire management game in Visual C# 2008, which relies on connecting to a remote SQL server database to get/store data.

I would like the user to be able to connect to a user-specified SQL server from the login screen(he specifies IP address, port, database name, ID, password and presses "connect" button). However, I found out that the Dataset connection string property is read only and cannot be changed. Is there any way to guide the wizard-generated DataSet to a user-specified server at run time?

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