Ken, As I mentioned in the other thread (http://goo.gl/sJBv), your present hosting provider may have made some changes to their database configuration but the responsibility to modify your database access accordingly, resides with the website administrator (in this case, YOU). In the referenced thread, I and a few others offered to locate the connection string for you and some even told you how to find it. I did not see you take up any of those offers or report your success with the method described.
When the ISP asked you to modify your web.config, they were guessing at the most probable (and often preferred) location of the connection string. If your code did not use a connection string from the config file, adding it in would not help things because it would not be used by the code anyway. The ISP is now telling you to update a class library because they must have arrived at the conclusion that your connection string is hardcoded into that dll. Since the dll is a compiled object they cannot make this change for you. *Either way, I do not see it as their responsibility.* I concede that they could have informed you in advance before making changes to the database, but such things do happen. It is entirely your prerogative to choose a new ISP but that won't help matters until you decide to help yourself. Your new ISP will expect you to modify your connection string (atleast initially) to map it to their database and they will expect you to know where to make this modification. In any case, my offer of assistance is still open. On Sep 24, 5:25 am, OccasionalFlyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for your response. I do have a database, and that is the straw > that broke the camel's back. On September 5, I could access it. On > September 10, I could not .The ISP keeps telling me the > connectionString is wrong. First they said the error was in > web.config, which did not even have a connectionString value until I > added it. That didn't fix it. Now they are saying I need to change > the applicationmanagement.dll to update its connection string. I have > no idea why they think such a value exists in this .dll. To me it > sounds like a copout to avoid the responsibility for whatever they did > that changed the environment after September 5. > > The database contains both a membership list and protected documents > that you retrieve from the database once logged in. I presume I need > the ISP's cooperation to copy my database in full, yes? Thanks. > > Ken >
