Deployment + Vista

We use strongly typed datasets, and thus our connection string is bound to
an application setting.

Currently we can deploy and alter the app.exe.config file at installation
time to successfully install, and use some basic XML editing to allow the
target database to be changed.

Writing to the application directory in vista will throw compatibility
errors, and not persist the changes at all.

What do we do? Is there a better way of getting the connection string in
your application, or a way of telling the designer where to get your
connection setting from??


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