ADOAdapter2.Connection Property

Definition

Namespace:

Microsoft.Office.Interop.InfoPath

Assembly:

Microsoft.Office.Interop.InfoPath.dll

Gets or sets the connection string used for an ADOAdapterObject object.

public:
 property System::String ^ Connection { System::String ^ get(); void set(System::String ^ value); };

public string Connection { get; set; }

member this.Connection : string with get, set

Public Property Connection As String

Property Value

String

Implements

Connection

Examples

// retrieve the Employees Adapter from the DataAdapters collection
ADOAdapter employeesDA = (ADOAdapter)thisXDocument.DataAdapters["Employees"];
// Get new server name from the main DOM
string newServer = thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("//my:serverName").text;
// build new connection string
string connectionString = "Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;Integrated Security=SSPI;Persist Security Info=True;";
connectionString += "Initial Catalog=SalesDB;Data Source=" + newServer;
// set new connection string
employeesDA.<span class="label">Connection </span>= connectionString;
// query the data source again
DataObject employeesDO = thisXDocument.DataObjects["Employees"];
employeesDO.Query();

Remarks

The Connection property of the ADOAdapter object contains the connection string that is used by the ADO data adapter to connect to an ActiveX Data Objects/OLEDB external data source.

Note: The ADOAdapter object is limited to work only with Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Access databases.