Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Mon Jun 12 16:39:10 CDT 2006
On 12 Jun 2006 at 16:17, Josh McFarlane wrote: > I'd be interested in seeing this instance where an unprotected global > variable has to exist. > Not has to, but is simplest. In many of my VB apps which connect to an SQL Server, I store connection details in an ini file (we can discuss ini files v registry at some other time <g>). On startup, I read the ini file and built a global connection string which I use in ADO recordsets throughout the application. Sure, the string *could* be modified anywhere in the application, but there is absolutely no reason to and it is a much cleaner solution that any of the alternatives. -- Stuart