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, ...
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 ...
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 ...