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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...