How to parse a connection string

Question

I need to get the server name from my connection string in my web.config file. How can I parse this value out? I have tried split but it wont allow me to split on a = sign. How do I go about parsing this out?

<add name ="Connection" connectionString="server=L\sqlexpress;database=System;User ID=TEst;Password=pass"></add>

I need L\sqlexpress I know it seems simple but I'm not getting it. Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

The class SqlConnectionStringBuilder could be used to initialize an instance with the connectionstring from your web.config. Then you could read the DataSource property

string conString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["Connection"].ConnectionString;
SqlConnectionStringBuilder cns = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder(conString);
string dataSource = cns.DataSource;