Question

I have a following connection string in app.config

<add name="myDBConnectionString"
     connectionString="Data Source=ASDFG\SQLEXPRESS;
         Initial Catalog=ZAQ;
         Integrated Security=True;"/>

in my C# code then, when I get this string DB is always evaluated as "ASDFG\\SQLEXPRESS"

I couldn’t put @ since app.config doesn’t like it. Also, if I say

ASDFG\\SQLEXPRESS 

it gets evaluated as

ASDFG\\\\SQLEXPRESS 

and not open the connection.

Thank You,

Answer 1

The debugger may display it as ASDFG\\SQLEXPRESS, but it’s just escaping that backslash for display purposes.