Tip: building connection strings from scratch
Here’s a tip posted by someone on the VB-DATA list. It’s already come in handy for me once or twice. Click “read more” for details….—–Original Message—–
From: Discussion for Microsoft Visual Basic Data Access
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Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 12:13 PM
To: VBDATA-L@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM
Subject: Re: Web Site for OLEDB connection strings
Just to add to the URL that others have posted….
The method I use to get a connectionstring is to create an empty file with the file extension, “UDL”
Then I open the file, which launches the “Data Link properties” dialog I select the Provider I want to use, and al the criteria (servername, etc), then hit OK
Then I open the file in Notepad to find one conenction string..ready for copying and pasting into the source editor/config file/whatever
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