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 ...

If you just want to get going with a code-first database, you don't even need to define a connection string -- just write your objects.

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 ...