Re: Encrypt sqlconnectionstring on XML files

Read this.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/AppArchCh3.asp
on the configuration section they dont recommend to put connection strings
on XML configuration files. So where to put them? How to deploy them to the
customer??


"Peter Rilling" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió en el mensaje
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> Why would you need to encrypt the connection string? If you use a trusted
> connection (meaning now username and password is stored in the string),
then
> there is no private information that needs to be encrypted.
>
> "Luis Esteban Valencia" <levalencia@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:eb7dVUAhFHA.1052@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello I want to encrypt the sqlconenction string on the xml
> > configuration files.
> >
> > The problem is the following
> > I have an application at my company that accesses a sql server
local
> > database. this database connection string is in a file called
appconf.xml
> > in my class library called DataAccessLogicLayer.
> >
> > If I encrypt the connection string what should I do when I deploy
to
> > customer? how should they change the connection string if that XML file
is
> > encryped.
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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