Visual Studio Magazine

Using MEF to Retrieve Connection Strings

Rather than try to ensure that he's getting the right config file for his production and test systems, Peter Vogel lets the application configure itself, using the Managed Extensibility Framework to ...
Ars Technica

ASP.NET: Managing connection strings across multiple computers

If any of you have any suggestions on managing connection strings for your applications, I'd like to hear it. I know a couple of ways to do it, but I'm looking for the best way.<BR><BR>In .NET 1.1, ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Accessing Connection Strings Reliably

ASP.NET provides a convenient place to hold connection strings in the connectionStrings element of the web.config file: When retrieving connection strings from the config file, you use syntax that ...
Computerworld

How to create SQL Server connection strings in Visual Studio

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 ...