Using mvc-mini-profiler

Question

I\'m trying to use the mvc-mini-profiler with EFCodeFirst I\'m creating a DbProfiledConnection and passing it to the DbContext on construction as below. The application continu

Answer 1

I suspect this relates to the static field initializer. Connections on web apps should never be static anyway (but request-specific at most).

The key is: what does ProfiledDbConnection actually come out as? The Get method returns a ProfiledDbConnection only if you are currently profiling (on the current request), and the connection is profiled against the MiniProfiler instance on that request.

If you use a static field, then there are two scenarios:

• the static field is initialized without a request context (or a non-developer request context): no profiling will occur as MiniProfiler.Current is null
• the static field is initialized, but everything is logged against the very first request, which is quickly dead