Change ConnectionString in VS2005 (C#)

Question

Hi,

I know there is some similar issue at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/63546/vs2005-c-programmatically-change-connection-string-contained-in-appconfig

But the still the question is not answered!! I need to MODIFY the connection string not adding new one.

Thank you,

Answer 1

This will help you out!

        /// <summary>
        /// Add a connection string to the connection
        /// strings section and store it in the
        /// configuration file. 
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="csName">The name of the property.</param>
        /// <param name="connectionString">The connectionstring as specified.</param>
        public static void AddConnectionStrings(string csName, string connectionString)
        {

            // Get the configuration file.
            System.Configuration.Configuration config =
                ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(
                ConfigurationUserLevel.None);

            // Add the connection string.
            ConnectionStringsSection csSection = config.ConnectionStrings;
            csSection.ConnectionStrings.Add(
                new ConnectionStringSettings(csName,
                    connectionString, "System.Data.SqlClient"));

            // Save the configuration file.
            config.Save(ConfigurationSaveMode.Full);       
        }

Well for updating it was hard to find any usefull code to update a connectionstring. It wasn't possible to update a connectionstring, so I had the remove the connectionstring, and add a new one. Well isn't that odd?? Microsoft left something undone... Well maybe it isn't usefull to change your app.config, but well, I had to make it anyhow. So dynamic app.config or web.config files is little bit strange, because you can't dynamically update it. No you have to remove it first by the configurationmanager.

        /// <summary>
        /// First remove the old connectionstring and after that
        /// add a connection string to the connectionstrings
        /// section and store it in the configuration file. 
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="csName">The name of the property.</param>
        /// <param name="connectionString">The connectionstring as specified.</param>
        public static void UpdateConnectionStrings(string csName, string connectionString)
        {
            // Get the configuration file
            System.Configuration.Configuration config =
                ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(
                ConfigurationUserLevel.None);

            // Remove the existing connectionstring.
            config.ConnectionStrings.ConnectionStrings.Remove(csName);
            // Add the connectionstring
            ConnectionStringsSection csSection = config.ConnectionStrings;
            csSection.ConnectionStrings.Add(
                new ConnectionStringSettings(csName, 
                connectionString, "System.Data.SqlClient"));

            // Save the configuration file
            config.Save(ConfigurationSaveMode.Full);
        }

Answer 2

This is an oldish question, and I would just like to know what solution eventually worked out for you. If you havent resolved it yet, this question attempts to answer it.