title: Is there a standard dialog for constructing an ADO.Net connection string (that is redistributable)?
body: <p>I want to use a standard dialog to solicit user input of an ADO.net connection string.  It is trivial to do for the oledb connection string as described here:
  <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;310083" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MSDN Article on MSDASC.DataLinks().Prompt</a></p>
  
  <p>I've also found examples that use Microsoft.Data.ConnectionUI.dll and MicrosoftData.ConnectionUI.Dialog.dll from VS (<a href="http://www.mztools.com/articles/2007/mz2007011.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">HOWTO: Using the Choose Data Source dialog of Visual Studio 2005 from your own code</a>).  </p>
  
  <p>Unfortunately these DLLs are not licensed for redistribution.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a standard dialog for choosing a data source that can be distributed with my application?</p>