Question

For some reason the connection string in umbraco web.config file is found under the appSettings tag, I would like to move it to his normal place under the connectionStrings tag, but doing so gives me an error.
Is there any way to move it so I can use a separate file for the connection string?

the connection string now:

<appSettings>
<add key="umbracoDbDSN" value="data source=My-Server\SQLEXPRESS;integrated security=True;persist security info=False;initial catalog=UmbracoWeb" /></appSettings>

Answer 1

Why do you want to move it?

Just reference the umbraco.dll, in your library, and use:

string s = umbraco.GlobalSettings.DbDSN;

Else I think you’ll have to download the source, and change it. But then you’ll have to do the fix on each update.