Change Request: Connection String Support for all languages

[adrianhall]

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The Basics

• Which design guideline is affected?

Connection String support

• Which target languages are affected?

All languages

• Describe the change:

Make the form of the connection string specific. For example, we don't want individual services to "create" a connection string that has special functionality. (e.g. support for developer connection strings for storage).

Reasoning

Connection string support needs to be consistent. The current guidelines provide too much flexibility which will result in inconsistencies between services.

Please provide any additional detail or reasoning for the request.

[adrianhall]

There is no action required here.

Board does not think we should be doing strongly typed connection strings.
We already have guidelines around requirements for connection strings - explicitly, the connection string must be copied from the portal / tooling.