Question

Is there a class or an interface in c#, that represents database connection settings?
I want to pass the connection settings to a function like:

public DoWorkOnDb(IDbConnectionSettings settings)
{
   SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(settings.ConnectionString);
   ...
}

What I do not want to do is:

• pass a connection, because the function should handle the connection on her own
• pass a connectionstring, because then you could pass all types of strings
• pass multiple strings like server, database, user, password, because then I have to build the connection string in the function.

Answer 1

As far as I understand you need SqlConnectionStringBuilder.
Then you need to call ToString() or TryGetValue() methods.