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 ...
Visual Studio Magazine

LocalDB: The Database Without a Connection String

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. After you install Entity Framework in your application, if you ...
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 ...