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I have a problem. My school’s databases are only accessible locally. So when I work from home or without an internet connection, I need to switch out the connectionString in my web.config to reflect a local database.
Is there a way to have two seperate connectionstrings, where one is used if the other is unavailable? Also, can I automatically mirror the first one to my local DB if it’s available?
I should mention; this is a Web Forms project using .NET 4.0
Common use case “to maintain separate db connections” is to have 1 web.config with multiple configuration folders in your service hosting project.
Basically, your web.config should have connectionStrings section to reference each configuration environment (Dev/Local/QA/Prod):
<connectionStrings configSource=".\Config\Dev\connectionStrings.config" />