Specify Connection string for Entity Framework used from multiple projects

Question

I am currently using EntityFramework 4 with POCO objects. The POCO objects are located in their own .net project (project.Models). The Context is located in the DAL project (project.DAL). I have multiple other projects that I wish to use the context/models, for Example:

project.Website

project.Webservice

project.ConsoleApplication

Question: How do I set the Context's connection string myself?
I have noticed that the Context object automatically finds the connection string in the web.config of the website if I add it there. Do I need to do something similiar for all the other projects? This seems inelegant and i think i'd rather have a way to manually configure it from my own config file or something.

Thanks! AFrieze

Craig Stuntz · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-27 14:23:13Z

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You can pass a connection string as the first argument to the ObjectContext constructor. Read it from wherever you like and pass it explicitly, if that's what you want.

answered Jul 27, 2011 at 14:23

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AFrieze Over a year ago

Thanks! Also found a nice tutorial here: blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2011/01/27/…

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