Question

What’s the best way to store connection string info?

I’d rather not just store the db password in NHib.config file.

Answer 1

Use encryption on the password and/or connection string and store the encrypted password/connection string in a config file of some sort. Then use my answer here to add the connection string value to the NHibernate Configuration object after decrypting it:

How to load application settings to NHibernate.Cfg.Configuration object?

Like:

nHibernateConfiguration.SetProperty( 
  NHibernate.Cfg.Environment.ConnectionString,
  Util.Decrypt(encryptedConnectionString));