While in the designer for the DBML, you can right-click on any white-space, and click on Properties (not the same as right-clicking on the DBML file and clicking Properties). From there, expand the “Connection” option. Set “Application Settings” to False and clear out the “Connection String” setting. These settings are what the designer uses to … Read more
Use the context constructor overload that takes the connection string as a parameter.
The final result is the same. The difference is: ‘localhost’ resolves at the TCP/IP level and is equivalent to the IP address 127.0.0.1 Depending on the application “(local)” could be just an alias for ‘localhost’. In SQLServer, ‘(local)’ and ‘.’ mean that the connection will be made using the named pipes (shared memory) protocol within … Read more
For EF Code First you can use ordinary connection string if you are using SQL Server. <add name=”DataContext” connectionString=”Data Source=myserver.com;Initial Catalog=MyDataBase;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=username;Password=password” providerName=”System.Data.SqlClient” />
I eventually found the answer in this question. Basically, in the Package Manager Console there’s a “Default project” dropdown. You need to set this to the project that contains your EF context.
Well, if both can share the same Connection String then I guess they’re both SqlConnection. Try this instead: var connection = rep.Database.Connection as SqlConnection;
App and Application Name are simply a way for somebody debugging SQL Server to know which client is connecting to it. If you had a SQL Server that has several apps that used it, it might be hard to know which one was sending which statements. If each app used a different Application Name it … Read more
For Entity Framework (database-first or model-first; when you have a physical EDMX model file) you need to use a special type of connection string which is quite different from the straight ADO.NET connection strings everyone else has mentioned so far… The connection string must look something like: <add name=”testEntities” connectionString=”metadata=res://*/Model1.csdl|res://*/Model1.ssdl|res://*/Model1.msl;provider=System.Data.SqlClient;provider connection string="data source=(local);initial catalog=test;integrated security=True;multipleactiveresultsets=True;App=EntityFramework"” … Read more
it is not a bug in EF Core 7.0, instead it is improved security. Microsoft suggest following 3 solution, which ever applies to you. install a valid certificate. Add TrustServerCertificate=True to the connectionstring Add Encrypt=False to the connectionstring Old behavior SqlClient connection strings use Encrypt=False by default. This allows connections on development machines where the … Read more