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title: "Which is the best place to store connectionstring in .NET projects ?"  
description: "Which is the best place to store connectionstring in .NET projects ?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2011-01-14  
updated: 2020-09-23  
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category: "asp.net"  
tags: ["asp.net"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Which is the best place to store connectionstring in .NET projects ?

web.config is the best place to store the connection string.\
for example\
<configuration> \
<appSettings>\
<add key="MyConnectionString" value="...connection string value put here..." />\
</appSettings>\
\
and retrieve it usingConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["MyConnectionString"]\
\

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

web.config is the best place to store the connection string.\
for example\
<configuration> \
<appSettings>\
<add key="MyConnectionString" value="...connection string value put here..." />\
</appSettings>\
\
and retrieve it usingConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["MyConnectionString"]\
\


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