Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX

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Figure 6-17. Adding a user to your database
By this point, you should be able to sign into the database that resides on your database
server from the web service that resides on your web development system by
changing the connection string to use the user you just created:
Data Source=SERVERNAME\SQLExpress;Initial Catalog=AdventureWorks;
user id=WebServiceUser;password=WebServiceUser
Do note here that storing your password in clear text in Web.config like this is a bad
idea and a major security risk. In any real environment, you should encrypt the password.
This is beyond the scope of this tutorial, but a great reference for how to handle
encryption of sections of Web.config can be found here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/
en-us/library/dtkwfdky.aspx.