Question : Access a connectionstring from app.config in xaml file for WPF application

I want to access a connection string defined in my app.config file to initialize a control in a .xaml file in a WPF appliction but can't quite figure out how to do it.  I could set the value in the loaded event but I really want to keep all the initialization together in the .xaml file.

Below is my app.config


 
          providerName="System.Data.OracleClient" />
 
 
   
 


and here is an example of a customer user control I wrote that has a connection string property exposed.

                                    ConnectionString="Data Source=XXXXXX;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=XXXX;Password=XXXXX; Max Pool Size=400">
                         

I want to be able to access the connectionstring and the DefaultAuctionID from the app.config in the .xaml file.

Answer : Access a connectionstring from app.config in xaml file for WPF application

Take a look at this link for informaiton on how it can be accomplished in xaml:

    http://weblogs.asp.net/psheriff/archive/2009/10/19/binding-to-config-settings-in-wpf.aspx