Is there a standard dialog for constructing an ADO.Net connection string (that is redistributable)?

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I want to use a standard dialog to solicit user input of an ADO.net connection string. It is trivial to do for the oledb connection string as described here: MSDN Article on MSDASC.DataLinks().Prompt

I've also found examples that use Microsoft.Data.ConnectionUI.dll and MicrosoftData.ConnectionUI.Dialog.dll from VS (HOWTO: Using the Choose Data Source dialog of Visual Studio 2005 from your own code).

Unfortunately these DLLs are not licensed for redistribution.

Is there a standard dialog for choosing a data source that can be distributed with my application?

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