Well, however this might sound, I was asked to take over administration of the site so that he previous administrator would have time for a large research project/book. I was told I'd be adding HTML, tweaking web pages and such. My web programming knowledge is in technologies other than ASP.NET. I've done reading in a couple of ASP.NET programming books but I didn't get what I need to do here I guess. I've looked through web.config., app.config, and the site's BIN directory and found nothing. All I know is that the ISP says we are still using the legacy MSSQL server and need a new connection string. I don't know where to find that. So I cannot tell you how the site currently accesses the database. Thanks.
Ken On Sep 16, 1:08 am, Cerebrus <[email protected]> wrote: > Ken, > > What tag you put the connection string in, is irrelevant, because we > do not know how you are retrieving the connection string. If your > existing code picks it from an appSettings element, then you can use > that. If it picks it from a ConnectionStrings element, then use what > they have suggested. You're not providing us enough details to be able > to troubleshoot the problem. > > I think you need someone more experienced with this stuff to take a > look at the existing setup. I could take a look if you would contact > me on my mail with FTP details of the server. > > On Sep 16, 11:06 am, OccasionalFlyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > My web site broke last week and my ISP claims it is because I need a > > connection string in my web.config. Of course, the fact that the site > > has function for years without that seems irrelevant to them, but I > > digress. I have looked at a _bunch_ of examples from a Google search > > of how to do this but none of them has given me the info I need. The > > ISP said to add this: > > > connectionString="Data Source=VCNSQL82\I82;Initial Catalog=ibr1;User > > ID=ibr12;Password=ibr12" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" > > > However, from the examples, I see that this needs to be inside > > <appSettings> > > > </appSettings> > > > Beyond that, however, I see all sorts of different things to do and no > > explanation of the exact details, like how to pick a name for a > > connection string. Can someone help me out with what I need to insert > > into the above connectionString for proper syntax? > > > Also, the ISP said that after I do this, I need to compile the > > site. I have no idea how to do that. Shouldn't, however, the XML of > > web.config be read on the fly, not compiled? Thanks. > > > Ken
