Getting Entity Framework Connection String From Alternate Location?
Mar 7, 2011
How can I retrieve the Entity Framework 4 connection string from a custom config file, not web.config?
Edit: Is it reasonable to delete the default constructor generated code and recreate it in a partial class to use the pulled in connection string?
I would really like to avoid changing all references to the EF context with an overloaded method including the connection string.
@BrokenGlass: This is what we ended up with:
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