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I am inheriting a Windows form. The above warning is appearing in line made for Connection. The connection is defined in App.Config and called with name in parent form.

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Public connection As New SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("name").ConnectionString)

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Posted 20-Mar-14 0:25am

atul sharma 5126

Updated 20-Mar-14 0:29am

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Sibasisjena · Answer 1 · 2014-03-20T01:09:00

Solution 1

Please have a look on the bellow link :
VB.NET Connection string (Web.Config, App.Config)[^]

How To Store and retrive ConnectionString from app.config file in vb.net project[^]

Posted 20-Mar-14 1:09am

Sibasisjena

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atul sharma 5126 20-Mar-14 7:14am

Thanks for the reply.
But my connection string calling is working perfectly in main form.

The issue is coming in the inherited form. The possible reason may be inheriting of a non-form value (from app.config) being part of the mother form.
But i don't know how to get over it.