Where does Visual Studio 2003 store connections created using server explorer

Question

I am creating a connection to an SAP system and want to manually modify the connectionString. Is it possible to do this?

Where does Visual Studio 2003 store connections created using server explorer

Answer 1

i have vs 2008, so this might be different - but maybe it still helps:

• the connection string is in %APPDATA%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\ServerExplorer\DefaultView.SEView (for vs 2003, this would probably be ...\7.1\.... to find the value of %APPDATA%, do echo %APPDATA% in a cmd shell)
• however, it is a EncryptedConnectionString, something like <EncryptedConnectionString id="ref-18">01000000D08C9DDF0115D1118C7A00C04FC297EB0100000...</EncryptedConnectionString> - so you cannot edit it manually.