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Wednesday, 28 September 2011

SQL Database Connection through App Settings

Hi guys here is a method to set database connectivity through app settings in the web.config file


SqlConnection .NET strings

Standard Security:
1. "Data Source=Your_Server_Name;Initial Catalog= Your_Database_Name;UserId=Your_Username;Password=Your_Password;"
2. "Server=Your_Server_Name;Database=Your_Database_Name;UserID=Your_Username;Password=Your_Password;Trusted_Connection=False"

Trusted connection:
1. "Data Source=Your_Server_Name;Initial Catalog=Your_Database_Name;Integrated Security=SSPI;"
2."Server=Your_Server_Name;Database=Your_Database_Name;Trusted_Connection=True;"  


The above are different connection strings which we apply accordingly.

Let me take a general approach with standard security, First we need to open web.config file and below <configuration> type

<appSettings>
<add key ="ConnectionStr" value="server = server name; database = 'database name'; uid = 'username'; pwd = 'password' />
</appSettings>

The appsettings in your webconfigwill appear as in the figure below:



Once the appsettings are given let us go to our C# or apsx.cs page where we need to set the connectivity as shown below

string connectionstr = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ConnectionStr"];

This is set as a global string, Once this is done this string is added to our SqlConnection;

SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(connectionstr);

Now our connection is set :)

Observe the example figure below:







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