VB.NET ASP.NET ConfigurationManager ConnectionString Source Code Example

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VB.NET ASP.NET ConfigurationManager ConnectionString Source Code Example

Purpose: – Illustrates using to retrieve from web.config file for VB.NET ASP.NET. The configuration manager can be used to do many things with regard to configuration, but this example just illustrates retrieving the connection string. Here are other methods that are available in the Configuration Manager class:

  • GetSection
  • GetWebAppSection
  • RefreshSection
  • OpenMachineConfiguration
  • OpenMappedMachineConfiguration
  • OpenExeConfiguration
  • OpenMappedExeConfiguration
  • OpenWebConfiguration
  • OpenMappedWebConfiguration

Prerequistes:

  1. Install Visual Web Developer 2008
  2. Install SQL Server Express
  3. Download Northwind Database
  4. Attach Northwind Database to Databases in Sql Express

Notes:

  • You can build your own library of syntax examples by using same web site over and over and just add new web forms to it.

Instructions:

  1. Use Visual Web Developer 2008
  2. Create new web site;
    • Click File/New Web Site
    • Select ASP.NET Website Template
    • Select Visual Basic for Language
    • name of Web Site could be VBNET_ASPNET_Syntax.
  3. Add New folder named "Configuration"
    • Right-click project name in solution explorer;
    • add new folder;
    • name of folder could be: Configuration
  4. Add Web Form Named ConfigurationMgrConnectionString to Configuration folder
    • Right-click Configuration folder;
    • add new item;
    • Select Web Form
    • Check place code behind in separate file
    • Web Form name could be ConfigurationMgrConnectionString
  5. Click on copy code in code below to copy code into web form

    ConfigurationMgrConnectionString.aspx

  6. Click on copy code in second set of code below to copy code into code-

    behind ConfigurationMgrConnectionString.aspx.vb

  7. Right-click on ConfigurationMgrConnectionString.aspx in solution explorer and select view in browser

Step 1: Click on Copy Code to Cut-n-paste code into ConfigurationMgrConnectionString.aspx

 XML |  copy code |? 
 
< %@ Page Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="ConfigurationMgrConnectionString.aspx.vb" Inherits="Configuration_ConfigurationMgrConnectionString" %>
 
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
        <asp:gridview ID="GridView1" runat="server">
        </asp:gridview>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>
 
 


Step 2: Click on Copy Code to Cut-n-paste code into ConfigurationMgrConnectionString.aspx.vb
 Visual Basic |  copy code |? 
Imports System
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Data.SqlClient
Partial Class Configuration_ConfigurationMgrConnectionString
    Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
 
    Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
        Dim con As New SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("Northwind_ConnectionString").ConnectionString)
 
        ' Create the command object
        Dim str As String = "SELECT EmployeeID, FirstName, LastName FROM Employees"
        Dim cmd As New SqlCommand(str, con)
 
 
        Dim da As New SqlDataAdapter(cmd)
 
        Dim ds As New DataSet()
 
        da.Fill(ds, "Employees")
        GridView1.DataSource = ds
        GridView1.DataBind()
 
    End Sub
End Class
 
 
 

Step 3: Click on Copy Code to Cut-n-paste code into web.config right after the appSettings section
 XML |  copy code |? 
<connectionstrings>
    <add name="Northwind_ConnectionString"
      connectionString="Server=(local)\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=Northwind;Integrated Security=SSPI" />
  </connectionstrings>

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