The CData ADO.NET Provider for SAS Xpt implements a standard DbConnection object in SASXptConnection. You can also use the SASXptConnectionStringBuilder 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 SASXptConnection objects.

C#

using (SASXptConnection connection =   
  new SASXptConnection("URI=C:\folder;"))  
{  
  connection.Open();  
}

VB.NET

Using connection As New SASXptConnection("URI=C:\folder;")
  connection.Open
End Using

Using SASXptConnectionStringBuilder

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

C#

SASXptConnectionStringBuilder builder =
  new SASXptConnectionStringBuilder("URI=C:\folder;");
  //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 = "URI=C:\folder;";
  //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 SASXptConnectionStringBuilder = New SASXptConnectionStringBuilder("URI=C:\folder;")
'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 = URI=C:\folder;"
'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