I have a WPF LOB application that I put on say 20 different clients. Most the stuff I use web services, but I'm using telerik client side reports for my reporting. To do this I currently give it a database connection string to connect to the database from the WPF. Now I currently get this from my app.config, but I don't want to have a different exe or clickonce deployement for my 20 different clients.
I could call a web service, get the connection string and give it to the reporting dll inside my WFP program, but I'm wondering about security. If someone is monitoring their http can they get the database connection string? When someone connects with WPF to a database can they monitor their ports and get the connection string?
It would also be possible to get the data with a web service and pass it to the telerik reports, but that is a lot harder and would have less performance. Suggestions?
dan