Hi

I am developing a desktop application and thinking in how encrypt, hide or something like that, to protect the connection string in the app.config file, i was searching in this forum and in the web to find a good solution but found nothing for desktop only for web based application´s

Anyone has a good solution to this problem??

thanks in advance

My app retrieves encrypted connection information. However it is not stored in the app.config file - even though it does have a bogus string in it. It's stored in a different location since the nHibernate module is an add on to an existing app. After decrypting I use the Configuration class SetProperty method to assign the connection string. You could also skip the app.config all together and create the connection string programatically.

Hope that helps.