Getting connection string from webconfig

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I am creating a custom .net membership provider. I understand the basics and have created a new class library(as I want to reuse this) with the relevant methods.

At the moment I have registered my custom provider in the web.config and if I add a break point to the methods, they are being called. My question though, is how can I access the connection string from my assembly? I reference a connection string when I add my provider in the web.config. This is what I have currently:

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<add name="DWMembership" type="DWMembership.Authentication" connectionStringName="ApplicationServices"
             enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" requiresUniqueEmail="false"
             maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="5" minRequiredPasswordLength="6" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0" passwordAttemptWindow="10"
             applicationName="/" />

Any help would be great! Thanks in advance.

Posted 8-Mar-12 1:13am

DominicZA

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#realJSOP · Answer 1 · 2012-03-08T01:16:00

Solution 1

The REAL question is can you use google?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178411.aspx#Y193[^]

Posted 8-Mar-12 1:16am

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Updated 8-Mar-12 1:17am

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DominicZA 8-Mar-12 7:50am

Ok, sorry, maybe I wasnt clear. I know how to read the connection string, but how do I get the name that is parsed in the connectionStingName attribute?

DominicZA · Answer 2 · 2012-03-08T01:59:00

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Ok, after some playing around I found out how to get it. If you override the Initialize method one of the parameters parsed is the collection of values you entered when adding the provider.

Posted 8-Mar-12 1:59am

DominicZA