Escape ;(semicolon) in odbc connection string in app.config file

Question

I have created a windows form with certain fields. I am trying to interact with oracle database through ODBC DSN connections.

I have an issue in the below connection

Answer 1

Apparently, ODBC is special when it comes to escaping connection string values with semicolons, equal signs, etc. According to this, you should enclose values with special characters in curly braces {}

connectionString="DSN=CLA_T5;Uid=abc;Pwd={abc;45}"