Best Practice for using a string across the app??

[David Lozzi]

I need to have a string available per page, i.e. the SQL Connection String. What's the best way of doing this? Right now I have it loaded into a session variable, but I think I should do something with global.asax??

Thanks!

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[Karl Seguin]

the best thing to do is to put it in your web.config. It can then be accessed via ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("connectionStrin g"). Even better would be to build a wrapper utility for this:

Public NotInheritable Class DatabaseUtility
Private Sub New()
End Sub

Public Shared ReadOnly Property ConnectionString() As String
Get
Return ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("connectionStrin g")
End Get
End Property

End Class

it can then be accessed via DatabaseUtility.ConnectionString

Session is a bad place for it..since htere'a session by user, but this is a global thing.

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I need to have a string available per page, i.e. the SQL Connection String. What's the best way of doing this? Right now I have it loaded into a session variable, but I think I should do something with global.asax??

Thanks!

--
David Lozzi
Web Applications/Network Specialist
Delphi Technology Solutions, Inc.
dlozzi(remove-this)@delphi-ts.com