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Web Applications

Flexible Connection Strings

Previously, when you built a Grid or Dialog component against either an ADO or AlphaDAO data source, and you specified the connection string using a named connection string, the named connection string was resolved at design time. In effect, the named connection string was nothing more than a shortcut for specifying a hard-coded connection string. Now, when you define a Dialog or Grid component using a named connection string, the connection string is resolved at runtime, by looking up its value in the a5_application.a5i file, which is always automatically published when any file in your project is published to your server. This means that a connection string can actually be changed after the project has been published, by editing the a5_application.a5i file.

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