Passing application's connection string down to a Repository Class Library in ASP.NET 5 using the IConfigurationRoot

Question

I have an ASP.NET 5 MVC Web Application and in Startup.cs I see that the public property

IConfigurationRoot Configuration 

is being set to

Answer 1

on your Startup.cs file add the following method

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) {
    services.AddSingleton(_ => Configuration);
}

then update your BaseRepo class like this

public class BaseRepo {
    private readonly IConfiguration config;

    public BaseRepo(IConfiguration config) {
        this.config = config;
    }

    public SqlConnection GetOpenConnection() {
        string cs = config["Data:DefaultConnection:ConnectionString"];
        SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(cs);
        connection.Open();
        return connection;
    }
}