Re: getting ADO-like properties from OleDbConnection

From: Paul Clement (UseAdddressAtEndofMessage_at_swspectrum.com)
Date: 05/14/04 

Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 10:13:34 -0500

On 13 May 2004 05:29:04 -0700, mark.lerch@quest.com (Mark) wrote:

¤ ADO connection objects had a Properties array which you could iterate
¤ to determine connection string values, such as "Persist Security Info"
¤ and the like.
¤
¤ Is there any facility in ADO.NET to do this aside from parsing the
¤ ConnectionString?

Afraid not, although splitting the connection string by the semi-colon should be relatively trivial.

Paul ~~~ pclement@ameritech.net
Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)

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