Hi

Again, thanks for the reply..

I think you are correct when you say I don't want to hard code the connection string into the application. I think I'm over engineering this one !

If I was to store my user logon information, user id and passwords etc, in a config file wouldn't this allow anybody to view this information ? Wouldn't this lead to a security problem ?

Do you know the standard approach to address this issue? If it is an issue...

Thanks for the help. Bernard...