Hello,

Does anyone know how to reference XML files thats not in my realative directory? I need to place my connectinString in a XML file thats located outside of my local directory. I keep getting this messages "the configSource atribute must be a relative physical path..."

Thank in advance..

Hi,

At this time it is not possible for security reasons. See this post on MSDN for more details:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=318234&SiteID=1

It looks as though IIS7's updated configuration capabilities will help:

http://shaikariv-ms.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1E15C67CC48202AB!114.entry?_c11_blogpart_blogpart=blogview&_c=blogpart

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,
David Walker

Hi Dave,

Do you know how to set the typed data sets to reference appSettings atribute in web.config instead connectionString which is by default. The reason is because i have created all of my typed datasets using connectionString atrubute but it happened that i need to use appSettings instead because thats the only way i can access extrernal xml file. This file contains our connection settings and therefore all application should be using it..

Thanks ,

Kiril

Hi Kiril,

If I fully understand what you are trying to do, this thread on MSDN Forums should contain your answer:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1054316&SiteID=1

In summary:

 <appSettings>
<add key ="connectionSource" value="Data Source=127.0.0.1,1544;Network Library=DBMSSOCN;Initial Catalog=pinnacleCMS;User Id=*****;Password=*****;"/>
</appSettings>

You would then read it back into your application like so: