Comments on: LINQ to SQL Connection Strings

By: Jeff Watson

Jeff Watson — Fri, 21 May 2010 00:28:01 +0000

One more thing, in code do not initialize your context with a connection string. Instead, do something like this.

MyEntities ctx = new MyEntities();

The application will look for the connection string by default in your .config file.

By: Jeff Watson

Jeff Watson — Fri, 21 May 2010 00:25:51 +0000

@Doug

The connection string can be updated in the app.config or the web.config when using the entity framework. When you create an entity model, it will add a connection string to your config file. Change it during deployment and you’re all set.

By: Doug Akins

Doug Akins — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:41:55 +0000

I wish I knew this before – I used have to go in and always make the default constructor private, and have to remember to do it after each build.

Any idea if there’s a similar way to do this in the Entity Framework?