Question

I am developing an ASP .NET application on my PC and deploying it on a host.

The application uses a Microsoft SQL DB, I have two databases one local and one on a server.

How should the application be configured so it could connect to both DBs without any code changes? (the 2 databases have identical names and structure)

Thanks

Answer 1

Store the connection string in web.config:

<configuration>
    <connectionStrings>
        <add name="Name" connectionString="..." />
    </connectionStrings>
</configuration>

Then in your code:

string connStr = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["Name"].ConnectionString;