V2.0 ConnectionSettings config section

[bri189a]

So nice of them to design ConfigurationManager.ConnectionSettings("MyConnection").ConnectionString

 

Has anybody figured out how to use this when using a ...DataSource object

 

In otherwords on a SQLDataSource object, the connection string can look at the web.config file (rather having to create a new one).

 

Or for AccessDataSource object, the DataFile could look at the connection string rather than having to add the database to your App_Data or manually typing in the path.

 

To me this would be great usability.

[PlausiblyDamp]

Given a web.config that contains

 

You can declare a DataSource object like

 

Is that what you mean? Note that under asp.net 2.0 a lot of what used to be code for data binding can now be moved into the asp tags and made a lot more declarative.