double quotes inside double quotes

Question

i am writing the following connection string into web.config but it giving me error.what is the correct way to write it?

<add name="stargaze_stargazeConnectionString1" connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename="D:\Work At DS\19th Jan\myastrolove.com_new\App_Data\dbName.mdf";Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True"/>

Answer 1

web.config is XML, so you need to escape the inner quotes to ":

<add name="stargaze_stargazeConnectionString1" 
connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=&quot;D:\Work At DS\19th Jan\myastrolove.com_new\App_Data\dbName.mdf&quot;;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True"/>