ADO.NET 2.0 - Connection user interface...

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21 Mar 2006 10:42 PM

sudha

Hi,

ADO.NET 2.0 exposes a way to get a list of available providers. This is
great. However, I don't see any method to display the provider-specific
connection user interface. Earlier technologies such as ODBC and OLEDB
both provide a mechanism to display provider-specific connection UI.

Can someone enlighten me on what I am missing?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Sudha

21 Mar 2006 10:48 PM

Robert Simpson

There exists no such beast, unfortunately.

The best you can do is to drop a Property Grid onto a form and assign an
instance of a DbConnectionStringBuilder to it. It'd be functionally
equivalent to the "Advanced" button when you're adding a data source to the
Server Explorer.

Robert

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"sudha" <sudhapad***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> ADO.NET 2.0 exposes a way to get a list of available providers. This is
> great. However, I don't see any method to display the provider-specific
> connection user interface. Earlier technologies such as ODBC and OLEDB
> both provide a mechanism to display provider-specific connection UI.
>
> Can someone enlighten me on what I am missing?
>
> Thank you in advance for your help.
>
> Sudha
>

22 Mar 2006 5:40 PM

sudha

Thank you for your help.

Sudha