encrypt SQL connectionstring c#

Question

I created an c# application (not asp webpage) which connects to a sql 2005 server. In my sourcecode the password and userid for this sql-server is coded plain text in Connec

Answer 1

You can encrypt sections in the app.config in the same way as web.config. MS calls it Protected Configuration. Since both the enrypted data and the key resides on the same machine it only makes it harder but in theory not impossible to get to the data.