It's actually an assembly I'm using with an inherited
System.Configuration.Install.Installer class and overriding the Install(...)
method.
I'm wondering if I could load a new instance of the same assembly in another
portion of the AppDomain and then that instance would use the new file.
At this point I'm up for trying anything.
Thanks,
Mike
On Dec 3, 2007 11:59 AM, Davy J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> As far as I can follow the source code, you need to reinitialize the
> ConfigurationSourceFactory, but it seems to be initialized when the app
> loads the config file at startup, so I hit a brick wall there too.
>
> This is what I tried.
>
>
> Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common.Configuration.ConfigurationSourceFactory.Create
> ();
> Database db = DatabaseFactory.Create("foobar");
>
> Didn't seem to work though :P
>
> If it's just in the setup application could you not load the app.configfile
> and processes it with XmlDocument to change the config section then launch
> a
> new instance of the application and kill the current instance?
>
> Dave.
>
> On 12/3/07, Mike Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the response Eddie.
> >
> > However, that's not my issue. During my installation process, I need to
> > change the connection string to point to the newly installed database.
> > Then, I need to to execute some business classes that use the
> application
> > blocks for data access. It seems that even though I can change the
> config
> > file and I haven't yet written any code to use the
> > DatabaseFactory.CreateDatabase(...) method, it still uses the old
> > connection
> > string instead of the new one that I just wrote out.
> >
> > I'm really not sure what to do now.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike
> >
> > On Dec 3, 2007 9:41 AM, Eddie Lascu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Before you go ahead and reveal your code, here is how I am doing it. I
> > > have
> > > an application and an app.config file. Inside the <configuration>
> > section
> > > I
> > > have a section for the connection string:
> > >
> > > <connectionStrings>
> > > <add name="My Database Connection String"
> > >
> > >
> connectionString="Database=MyDatabaseInstance;Server=MyDatabaseServer;
> > > Integrated Security=Yes;"
> > > providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
> > > </connectionStrings>
> > >
> > > Inside my application I execute this:
> > >
> > > SqlDatabase objDatabase_ = DatabaseFactory.CreateDatabase("My Database
> > > Connection String") as SqlDatabase;
> > >
> > > Now, when I deploy my application, I only change the name of the
> > database
> > > instance and server and everything works just fine.
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > > Eddie
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics.
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eddie Lascu
> > > Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 5:11 PM
> > > To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM
> > > Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Connection strings and the MS
> Enterprise
> > > Library Block
> > >
> > >
> > > Can you post some code? I have been doing the exact same thing w/o
> any
> > > issues for the last couple of years. You must have gotten it wrong.
> > >
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