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

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 ...