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SQL Server Express database in default instance.On similar lines, the connection string for
SQL SERVER CONNECTION STRING WEB CONFIG CODE
This connection string can be then accessed from with the Database context class as follows… public class TestContext : DbContext Īs can be seen in the code snippet above the name of the connection string is passed as a parameter in the constructor of the base DbContext class. If we wish to connect to a localdb database using file name we can useĭata Source=(LocalDB)\mssqllocaldb AttachDbFileName=|DataDirectory|\DatabaseFileName.mdf InitialCatalog=DatabaseName Integrated Security=True MultipleActiveResultSets=True
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We can however, declare this explicitly using… This represents the implicit way to declare the connection string. The here represents the default instance of SQL Server 2014.įor SQL Server 2012 we would have to replace this with When you add the nuget package for Entity Framework in your project (I tried this out in Visual Studio 2015 for ASP.Net MVC 5), by default it adds support for the localdb data provider in the web.config file as follows… If not you may checkout my earlier article here. While I explain how the connection string and database provider information can be set in the web.config for Entity Framework, I’ll be assuming that you are aware of the differences between localdb, Sql Server Express and Sql Server Compact Edition. Setting up Entity Framework connection string in web.config