Switch between data sources

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poulin_julien posted on Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Hi, I just begun writing an application and one of the requirements is that the application should be able to switch the data source from a SqlServer Database and XML files and vice versa?

What is the best way to build my classes in regards to this? Specificaly inside the DataPortal_XYZ methods...

Thanks in advance

rsbaker0 replied on Thursday, June 18, 2009

There are several possible ways to do this, but I'd suggest storing the data source configuration in a .config file.

CSLA uses the app.config file to configure the data portal, so you might look at this for examples.