Connection String Opinion?

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I'm having a design brain-cramp.

I have an app that needs to have a connection string that can changed by the
user.... (basically the same app needs to be able to talk to different
databases on different servers --- they all have -identical- tables/views/sp
within them)

So, it seems like I would want to make a "database"form and have a
connection string as a property... But as I do this, I feel I'm swimming
upstream all the time so to speak --- everything seems to want to use a
connectiong string from app.config.

Do you have any ideas on how I should handle this? It seems like I can't
use the design time UI much if I keep going the way I'm going (like for grid
design and such)...

TIA!



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