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ConnectionInfo.CreationName Property

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Returns the string that is used to create an instance of the ConnectionInfo object. This property is read-only.

Namespace:  Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime
Assembly:  Microsoft.SqlServer.ManagedDTS (in Microsoft.SqlServer.ManagedDTS.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public ReadOnly Property CreationName As String 
    Get
'Usage
Dim instance As ConnectionInfo 
Dim value As String 

value = instance.CreationName

public string CreationName { get; }

public:
virtual property String^ CreationName {
    String^ get () sealed;
}

abstract CreationName : string 
override CreationName : string

final function get CreationName () : String

Property Value

Type: System.String
A String that contains the creation name. The name may be the fully qualified assembly name (for managed assemblies), it may be the ProgID or CLSID (for COM DLLs), or it may be one of the STOCK monikers such as STOCK:FILE that is used to create the connection manager for a file.

Implements

IDTSName.CreationName

Examples

The following code example creates an Application object, iterates through the default connections on the computer and then lists the properties of each connection. In this example, the CreationName is shown as "DTS.ConnectionManagerFile.1".

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime;

namespace ConnInfoTest
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Application dtsApplication = new Application();
            ConnectionInfos connectionInfos = dtsApplication.ConnectionInfos;

            foreach (ConnectionInfo connInfo in connectionInfos)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(connInfo.ConnectionContact);
                Console.WriteLine(connInfo.ConnectionType);
                Console.WriteLine(connInfo.CreationName);
                Console.WriteLine(connInfo.Description);
                Console.WriteLine(connInfo.FileName);
                //Console.WriteLine(connInfo.FileNameVersionString);
                Console.WriteLine(connInfo.IconFile);
                Console.WriteLine(connInfo.IconResource);
                Console.WriteLine(connInfo.ID);
                Console.WriteLine(connInfo.Name);
                Console.WriteLine(connInfo.UITypeName);
            }
        }
    }
}

Imports System
Imports System.Collections.Generic
Imports System.Text
Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime
 
Namespace ConnInfoTest
    Class Program
        Shared  Sub Main(ByVal args() As String)
            Dim dtsApplication As Application =  New Application() 
            Dim connectionInfos As ConnectionInfos =  dtsApplication.ConnectionInfos 
 
            Dim connInfo As ConnectionInfo
            For Each connInfo In connectionInfos
                Console.WriteLine(connInfo.ConnectionContact)
                Console.WriteLine(connInfo.ConnectionType)
                Console.WriteLine(connInfo.CreationName)
                Console.WriteLine(connInfo.Description)
                Console.WriteLine(connInfo.FileName)
                'Console.WriteLine(connInfo.FileNameVersionString)
                Console.WriteLine(connInfo.IconFile)
                Console.WriteLine(connInfo.IconResource)
                Console.WriteLine(connInfo.ID)
                Console.WriteLine(connInfo.Name)
                Console.WriteLine(connInfo.UITypeName)
            Next
        End Sub
    End Class
End Namespace

Sample Output:

Microsoft Corporation

FILE

DTS.ConnectionManagerFile.1

Connection Manager for Files

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\DTS\Binn\DtsConn.dll

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\DTS\Binn\DtsConn.dll

0

{41F5EFE4-E91A-4EB0-BF10-D40FD48B3C03}

DTS Connection Manager for Files

Microsoft.DataTransformationServices.Design.SingleFileConnectionManagerUI,

Microsoft.DataTransformationServices.Design, Version=10.0.000.0,

Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91

See Also

Reference

ConnectionInfo Class

Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime Namespace