"_DS" <_DS@Nospamforme.com> wrote in message
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> There is an article on MSDN called: "HOW TO: Build a Connection String
> Programmatically in ADO.NET by Using Visual C# .NET"
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;310083
>
> The article outlines adding refs to MSDASC and adodb to a project in
> order to interactively generate and test a db connect string.
>
> I can't imagine that VS2005 would still be ref'ing older com modules
> for this.  What is the new function?
>

"_DS" <_DS@Nospamforme.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:51:24 +0100, "Miha Markic [MVP C#]" <miha at
> rthand com> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>there is a DbConnectionStringBuilder base class in .net 2.
>>Database specific classes inherit from it, such as
>>SqlConnectionStringBuilder class.
>
> That's part 2 of what I was trying to recall, but that's the
> string-cat function that assembles the string after individual
> components are formed.  (I had actually written a class that
> did that, pre-VS2005)
>
> The main function that I was looking for is similar to VS2005's
> built-in "Add/Modify Connection Dialog Box" but done programmatically.
> In other words, the user of my program would have the equivalent of
> the Visual Studio Connection Wizard.
>
> Again, I had done this with VS2003 by using the COM module that I had
> mentioned, but I do believe there is a .NET version now.  That would
> be nice, as VS2005 does not like the COM module much.
>
>
>
> ...and probably