vb.net用户输入ole db连接字符串

Question

I'm new to vb.net and have run into a road block. I'm making an application that connects to a database with a user entered data connection string. Trying not to reinvent the wheel, I looked for the vb.net equivalent of 'OLE DB Core Services', the properties menu when editing an .udl file and came up empty handed. Is there a way to call this service to edit an embedded .udl or resource? or vb.net forms/functions for getting connection string information from the user?

Answer 1

As per this article :

to properly configure the UDL properties programmatically would involve a call to the SDK for the Microsoft Host Integration Server. You can use LabVIEW to call a .NET Assembly in order to accomplish this, but this is recommended only for experienced users that are familiar with .NET and ADO-compliant drivers.

May I suggest An alternative solution:

Could you just let the user enter the connection string in an input form of some kind and then use OleDbConnectionStringBuilder to validate and then store the connection string? As per MSDN page :

The connection string builders let developers programmatically create syntactically correct connection strings, and parse and rebuild existing connection strings.