Finding Active Visual Studio 2008 Connection Strings

Question

Is there a simple way to figure out which connection strings are being used in my web.config. After a lot of LinqToSQL testing, I have a few extra connection strings sitting in my web.config that I'm sure aren't being used, but I'm not exactly sure which ones are/aren't. Any quick ways to single these out. The obvious solution is to pull them one by one and do a comprehensive debug of the whole app.

Answer 1

I think you answered this one. You could also do a Find in all files, or if it's strongly typed find all references and then remove them. Ultimately I'd rely on tests, even if they were just some comprehensive smoke tests.