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 ...
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 ...
Ars Technica

ASP.Net - where to store connection string

I vaguely remember this topic from awhile back. Maybe I dreamt it though...<BR><BR>How do you guys store your connection strings for ASP.Net? I currently develop on a test machine and then deploy to ...
MCPmag

Create a DSN-Less Database Connection

You must have key connection information to connect any application with a data source (database), including Microsoft Access, SQL Server, Oracle RDBMS, and others. The connection information includes ...
Ars Technica

VBA: Connection string results in "External table is not in the expected format"

I'm attempting to connect to an excel file using an ADO recordset. There is a column in this that I need the sum of for a report. I'm familiar with ADO connections, so I assumed this would be the most ...