Hi All:
I would love to see this in the code base. Thanks, Chris Potter Confidentiality Notice: This E-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. ________________________________ From: Oddur Snær Magnússon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 9:11 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: Storing Connection Strings in the <connectionStrings> in .config files Hi all, I was wondering about the Ibatis approach to storing connectionstrings. Ibatis now stores the connection strings in the sqlmap file, with optional property replacement like so: <database > <provider name="sqlServer20005" /> <dataSource name="TheDB" connectionString="data source=${datasource};database=${database};user id=${username};password=${password};NETWORK=dbmssocn"/> </database> Now since we sometimes have to share a connection string with other code which prefers storing the connectionstring in the <connectionStrings> section of the .config file, we have to maintain a copy of the connectionstring in both places. What would be ideal would be the option on saying something like: <database > <provider name="sqlServer20005" /> <dataSource name="TheDB" connectionStringName="TheDbConnectionString"/> </database> And then in our .config file say <connectionStrings> <add name=" TheDbConnectionString " connectionString="Database=TheDB;Server=TheDBServer;User Id=Spam;Pwd=Eggs;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/> </connectionStrings> This would also allow us to use the configuration encryption features in the .net framework: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998280.aspx Comments, improvments, ideas ? Implementing this seems like something that might be done really quickly. I'll implement it tonight and submit a patch if people would like to see it merged into the SVN release. - Oddur
