Catching SQL Exceptions for ConnStrings in Web.Config

Hi,

I have a connection string in my web.config - to which I then refer to in my code through all my controls, they're all databound to it.

Anyway - how do I catch any errors - such as when I want to view the website on a train, if I'm working on it.

I don't want it to crash and burn [the site, not the train] - if I dont have access to the sql server.

How can I wrap it in a try block!?- How do i then deal with controls which refer to the connection string?

One solution I thought of - is to programmatically set all the databinding - and not just with the GUI. As that way I can wrap everything in a try{}catch{} block.

Any other - site-wide way of doing this?

Thank you,

R

If it's a connstrings error, then one way would be to try them when the application starts up.

If you are looking for error handling during the select/insert/delete events of a sqldatasource, then check the errors in the selected/inserted/deleted events, and set e.errorhandled property to true (or not if you want the default error handling). Of course, that's not site wide.

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i want to capture an error at web.config stage.

so if you have something like this in your web.config:

<add name="DataStoreConnectionString" connectionString="Data Source=.\sqlexpress;Initial Catalog=mehDB;Integrated Security=True;uid=submit;pwd=" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>

then have it produce an error on the site - and not just prevent the website from loading. as the database component althogh significant, only is necessary for logged in users - so not to affect users that are just browsing.

how do i catch the error at such an early stage?

thank you.