The connection string class I created to be used on the Northwind site when in test mode has ExportMetadata attributes like this: <Export(GetType(ConnectionClasses.IConnectionString))> ...

That seems cumbersome.<BR><BR>I wrote a quick-and-dirty class library that gets a connection string out of a registry key.

I had been passing username/password strings directly into the ADO.NET connection string, however this means that if a user has a quote character in his password, it borks the ConnectionString and ...

As a starting point, there's nothing stopping you from selecting your database's connection in Server Explorer, copying the connection string from the Properties List and pasting it into your config ...

Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...