In addition Davej, if you're into Winforms development like myself, the connection strings are stored in the app.config file.
Regards, Benj On Oct 28, 3:55 pm, Jamie Fraser <[email protected]> wrote: > Your connection strings are actually stored in the web.config which is an > xml file (and therefore can be edited without a recompile). > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Davej <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm a beginner and have been playing around with VB 2008 and SQL > > Server 2008 and am confused about the (Connection string) that must be > > defined in the project settings. Surely you don't want a recompile if > > the location of the database server changes -- do you? > > > I found this article... > > >http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vb/PersistConnectionStrings.aspx?displa... > > > ...but I haven't been able to get it to work. > > > Thanks for any help
