Change connection string & reload app.config at run time

Question

When I change the connection string using this code, it does not reload app.config at runtime. I expected it to reload similarly to how we reload app.conf

Answer 1

Yeah, when ASP.NET web.config gets updated, the whole application gets restarted which means the web.config gets reloaded.

Answer 2

IIRC, the ConfigurationManager.RefreshSection requires a string parameter specifying the name of the Section to refresh :

ConfigurationManager.RefreshSection("connectionStrings");

I think that the ASP.NET application should automatically reload when the ConnectionStrings element is modified and the configuration does not need to be manually reloaded.