>Paul gave you a great suggestion, here is some code to do that. This is seperate from your static v instance issue. This way it is only in one place and retrieved only the first time it is accessed.
>

>public string ConnString
>{
>     get
>     {
>          if (_connString == "")
>          {
>               _connString = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["FCCMSConnectionString"].ConnectionString;
>          }
>          return _connString;
>     }
>}
>private string _connString = "";
>

What is better and why, the way I currently have it in util.cs or the way you showed?

static readonly string ConnectionString = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["FCCMSConnectionString"].ConnectionString;