External config file to be used by multiple DLLs.

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Hi,

I have multiple DLLs that are used to read/write data into my database.

There is a presentation layer DLL and a data access layer DLL. I want these DLLs to share a set of the connection strings.

My idea is to store the connection string in a seperate DLL in the external configuration file. I'm not sure whether it's a good idea and whether I can reference that external DLL in both presentation and data access layers.

The other question is whether I should write a helper class to read the data from the external config file or whether I should be using built in .Net methods?

Thank you

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