Question

I have a console app, let’s call it Test.Console. This app uses a project called Test.Code.

Test.Code is a wrapper to access a database and should have an app.config file containing the connection string.

Test.Console should then access the classes in Test.Code to access what’s in the database.

However, when I put the connection string in the app.config in the Code project, it doesn’t seem to be able to access it, but when I put it in app.config in the Console project, the code in the Code project seems to be able to access it.

Is there any way that I can put the connection string in the Code project rather than the Console project?

Edit:

App.config:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
    <connectionStrings>
        <clear />
        <add name="ACE" connectionString="data source=servername;database=ACE;userid=username;password=password"/>
    </connectionStrings>
</configuration>

In my class:

string connection = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["ACE"].ConnectionString;

That’s it at the moment.

Answer 1

The app.config is exactly that, configuration for the running application.

The running application should be in charge of what databases etc that it connects to, hence the reason the config goes there.