>In my DataAccess class I have a private method called GetConnectionString to generate the connection string based on property values. I'm trying to use it to connect to an Access database. In this method is a switch which is evaluated based on the InvariantName. For the OleDb option I have:
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>

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>DbConnectionStringBuilder csb = _Factory.CreateConnectionStringBuilder();
>
>.
>.
>.
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>case "System.Data.OleDb":
>    if (_Provider != "")
>    {
>        csb.Add("Provider", _Provider);
>    }
>    if (_DataSource != "")
>    {
>        csb.Add("Data Source", _DataSource);
>    }
>    if (_InitialCatalog != "")
>    {
>        csb.Add("Initial Catalog", _InitialCatalog);
>    }
>    if (_TrustedConnection)
>    {
>        csb.Add("Integrated Security", "SSPI");
>    }
>    else
>    {
>        if (_UserName != "")
>        {
>            csb.Add("User Id", _UserName);
>        }
>
>        if (_Password != "")
>        {
>            csb.Add("pwd", _Password);
>        }
>    }
>
>    break;
>
>

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>Then outside the switch I have:
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>

>return csb.ConnectionString;
>

>
>When I step to this line and hover over 'csb', I see
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Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source="M:\APEX Master Database.mdb";Integrated Security=SSPI

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>When I hover over 'ConnectionString' I see:
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Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=\"M:\\APEX Master Database.mdb\";Integrated Security=SSPI

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>Notice the extra slashes before and after the database name.

I think you're just mis-interpreting what you're seeing: The additional backslashes as escaping the quotation marks and the existing backslash.