How to set up LocalDb for unit tests in Visual Studio 2012 and Entity Framework 5

Question

We have a Visual Studio 2012 ASP.NET MVC project using Entity Framework 5.

There are some unit tests that depend on a database. Setting up the app.config file in the

Answer 1

I suggest to use this code (based on the answer of Jupaol):

[ClassInitialize]
public static void SetUp(TestContext context)
{
    AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetData(
        "DataDirectory", 
        context.TestDeploymentDir);
}

Usually this will create your database inside TestResults\\Out\ folder of your solution.