How do I get the connection string

[Troy Bull]

Greetings

I have a simple app with a datasource, and I want to make a call to a
stored procedure. So, what I was trying to do was get the connection
string from Settings.settings,
then basically do this:

SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(connStr);
conn.Open();
SqlCommand cmd = conn.CreateCommand();
cmd.CommandText = "insert into test values ('testdata')";
int rows_affected = cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
cmd.Dispose();
conn.Dispose();
except in my code I will call my stored procedure, is this the right
thing to do? How do I get the connection string that is stored in
Settings.settings?

thanks
troy

[Mr. Arnold]

"Troy Bull" <tr*******@gmail.comwrote in message
news:e6*************@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

Greetings

I have a simple app with a datasource, and I want to make a call to a
stored procedure. So, what I was trying to do was get the connection
string from Settings.settings,
then basically do this:

SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(connStr);
conn.Open();
SqlCommand cmd = conn.CreateCommand();
cmd.CommandText = "insert into test values ('testdata')";
int rows_affected = cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
cmd.Dispose();
conn.Dispose();
except in my code I will call my stored procedure, is this the right thing
to do? How do I get the connection string that is stored in
Settings.settings?

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...y8(VS.71).aspx

[Peter Bradley]

Ysgrifennodd Troy Bull:

Greetings

I have a simple app with a datasource, and I want to make a call to a
stored procedure. So, what I was trying to do was get the connection
string from Settings.settings,
then basically do this:

SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(connStr);
conn.Open();
SqlCommand cmd = conn.CreateCommand();
cmd.CommandText = "insert into test values ('testdata')";
int rows_affected = cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
cmd.Dispose();
conn.Dispose();
except in my code I will call my stored procedure, is this the right
thing to do? How do I get the connection string that is stored in
Settings.settings?

thanks
troy

Assuming you have the following in your App.config or Web.config file:

<connectionStrings>
<add name="MyConnectionString"
connectionString="<whatever your connection string is>"
providerName="<whatever your provider is>" />
</connectionStrings>

.... and that you are using .NET 2.0. You can say in the method where
you want to retrieve the connection string, something like:

private string ConnStr =
ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["MyConnectionString"].ConnectionString;

HTH
Peter