The CData ADO.NET Provider for CockroachDB implements a standard DbConnection object in CockroachDBConnection. You can also use the CockroachDBConnectionStringBuilder to programmatically build, parse, and rebuild connection strings.

Creating Connection Objects

See Establishing a Connection for guides to defining the connection string and authenticating. Below is a typical invocation to create CockroachDBConnection objects.

C#

using (CockroachDBConnection connection =   
  new CockroachDBConnection("User=root;Password=root;Database=system;Server=localhost;Port=26257"))  
{  
  connection.Open();  
}

VB.NET

Using connection As New CockroachDBConnection("User=root;Password=root;Database=system;Server=localhost;Port=26257")
  connection.Open
End Using

Using CockroachDBConnectionStringBuilder

The following code example shows how to use an ADO.NET connection string builder to parse a connection string.

C#

CockroachDBConnectionStringBuilder builder =
  new CockroachDBConnectionStringBuilder("User=root;Password=root;Database=system;Server=localhost;Port=26257");
  //Pass the connection string builder an existing connection string, and you can get and set any of the elements as strongly typed properties.
  builder.ConnectionString = "User=root;Password=root;Database=system;Server=localhost;Port=26257";
  //Now that the connection string has been parsed,
  // you can work with individual items:
  builder.MyString = "new property";
  builder.MyBoolean = true;

  // You can refer to connection keys using strings, 
  // as well. 
  builder["Logfile"] = "test.log";
  builder["Verbosity"] = 5;

VB.NET

Dim builder As CockroachDBConnectionStringBuilder = New CockroachDBConnectionStringBuilder("User=root;Password=root;Database=system;Server=localhost;Port=26257")
'Pass the connection string builder an existing connection string, and you can get and set any of the elements using strongly typed properties.
builder.ConnectionString = User=root;Password=root;Database=system;Server=localhost;Port=26257"
'Now that the connection string has been parsed,
' you can work with individual items:
builder.MyString = "new property"
builder.MyBoolean = True
  
' You can refer to connection keys using strings, 
' as well. 
builder("Logfile") = "test.log"
builder("Verbosity") = 5