In my .net 4 solution, i have two different projects- an web application project and a class library project.
In web application project, database connection string is in web.config file. I would like to access that connection string from class library project. Is it possible? if yes, how?
If there is any better approach to get connection string, please let me know.
Best Answer
To access it from your class library add a reference to
System.Configuration
then useSystem.Confinguration.ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings
.It's not ideal to read this from a class library. After all, can you say that your class library will always be consumed by something with a configuration file? Certainly not if you share it with other developers, especially of different platforms.
Consider:
e.g.: