Question

My app is using a unique password to access a MS Access database.
Currently this is stored as plain text in a settings project.

What would be the best place to store this?

Thanks,
Alex

P.S. A colleague recommends source code obfuscation. What do you think?

Answer 1

You’ll want to look into the ProtectedData class. There’s a good article here about how to encrypt passwords and store them in the app.config file, although you should be able to use the same approach wherever you store your passwords.