connection-string

I want to read just a connection string from a configuration file and for this add a file with the name "appsettings.json" to my project and add this content on it: { "ConnectionStrings": { "DefaultConnection": "Server=(localdb)\\mssqllocaldb;Database=aspnet- WebApplica71d622;Trusted_Connection=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=true" }, "Logging": { "IncludeScopes": false, "LogLevel": { "Default": "Debug", "System": "Information", "Microsoft": "Information" } } } On ASP.NET I used this: var temp=ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["DefaultConnection"].ConnectionString; Now how can I read

I'm initializing Entity Framework Object context, and this gives me the keyword not supported error: metadata=res://*/MainDB.csdl|res://*/MainDB.ssdl|res://*/MainDB.msl;provider=System.Data.SqlClient;provider connection string="Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=D:\Workspace\vs\Leftouch\Leftouch.Web\Data\Leftouch.mdf;Integrated Security=True;Connect Timeout=30;User Instance=True;App=EntityFramework" I took the connection string directly from web.config which was working, and modified only the path to the file (which I set dynamically), and instead of using the default value, used this

I have an application that I am just migrating to Azure. Currently I use web.config transformation to manage changing the database connecting string dev/staging/prod environments. How is it best to manage these multiple connection strings in Azure? Jonathan McIntire In cases where it doesn't matter if the developer can see production credentials, you can use the built-in Visual Studio 10 config transformations. If this is what you're looking for, follow these steps: 1.Navigate to your Azure project folder in file explorer 2. Make a copy of ServiceConfiguration.cscfg 3. Rename copy to

With SQL Server 2005 and 2008 is it possible to set the default schema from the connection string? It'd be a lot easier if we didn't have to manually set the schema with SQL code. No, this is done at the database User level, not in the connection string. For reference, here are all of the properties which can be set in a connection string: http://www.connectionstrings.com/Articles/Show/all-sql-server-connection-string-keywords You set the default schema based on the user who is logging in via the connection, not the connection itself. ALTER USER Mary51 WITH DEFAULT_SCHEMA = Purchasing;

I uploaded my site on godaddy shared host. I can access this database from my management studio. I can't access this database from my site. I get following error: Format of the initialization string does not conform to specification starting at index 0. My connection string is in web.config and it looks like this: <connectionStrings> <add name="mcn" connectionString="Data Source=mydatabase.db.8706856.hostedresource.com; Initial Catalog=mydatabase; User ID=username; Password=xyz;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" /> </connectionStrings> What cause this error? I have also tried to write ..