CSMApi class provides the method GetDBAccess(CMString). At first blush this is not going to help because the CMString is passed in and not out of the method. However, the CMString is a tricky class, and it has the method SetString() which allows you to change the underlying string representation even if the object itself has all the appearances of being constant, or at least non-modifiable. Another good reason to avoid CMString.Anyway, the upshot is that you can override GetDBAccess to provide your own connection details. Interestingly, it turns out that if your
CSMApi derivative is in the exe this all works fine but if it is in a dll then, oh dear, it doesn't work. I don't know why at this point, but I assume that there are statics in CSMApi which have some evil order-dependencies...I'll let you know if I find out what's going on.
I assume this is related to the underlying CSMApi because starting an app with a derived class from an exe behaves differently to one from a dll. Specifically, in the latter case the application appears to initialise immediately.
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