ConnectionStringsSection.ConnectionStrings Property

Definition

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C#
[System.Configuration.ConfigurationProperty("", Options=System.Configuration.ConfigurationPropertyOptions.IsDefaultCollection)]
public System.Configuration.ConnectionStringSettingsCollection ConnectionStrings { get; }
C#
public System.Configuration.ConnectionStringSettingsCollection ConnectionStrings { get; }

Property Value

A ConnectionStringSettingsCollection collection of ConnectionStringSettings objects.

Attributes

Examples

The following example shows how to use the ConnectionStrings property of the ConnectionStringsSection object.

C#
static void ShowConnectionStrings()
{
    // Get the application configuration file.
    System.Configuration.Configuration config =
            ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(
            ConfigurationUserLevel.None);

    // Get the connectionStrings section.
    ConnectionStringsSection csSection =
        config.ConnectionStrings;

    for (int i = 0; i <
        ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings.Count; i++)
    {
        ConnectionStringSettings cs =
            csSection.ConnectionStrings[i];

        Console.WriteLine($"  Connection String: \"{cs.ConnectionString}\"");

        Console.WriteLine($"#{i}");
        Console.WriteLine($"  Name: {cs.Name}");

        Console.WriteLine($"  Provider Name: {cs.ProviderName}");
    }
}

Applies to

Product Versions
.NET 8 (package-provided), 9 (package-provided), 10 (package-provided)
.NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1
.NET Standard 2.0 (package-provided)
Windows Desktop 3.0, 3.1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

See also