How do I have one location for connection strings machine wide?
问题 I have found that in the Machine.config you can add your connection strings so that you don't need your connection strings in each running apps config file. The down side to this is that you have number of framework versions * 2 machine.config file. So for version 4.* you have 2 alone. This took my research on to find that you can externalize the connection string using the configSource attribute in the connectionString element of the machine.config <connectionStrings configSource="Config