Entity Framework 6 set connection string in code

Question

I have a dll that uses the Entity Framework 6 to do some database operations. I\'m using a database first approach. The model and everything concerning the Entity Framework,

Answer 1

Thanks a lot . I changed little for Code First EF6.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Data.Entity.Core.EntityClient;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace Data
{
    public class SingleConnection
    {
        private SingleConnection() { }
        private static SingleConnection _ConsString = null;
        private String _String = null;

        public static string ConString
        {
            get
            {
                if (_ConsString == null)
                {
                    _ConsString = new SingleConnection { _String = SingleConnection.Connect() };
                    return _ConsString._String;
                }
                else
                    return _ConsString._String;
            }
        }

        public static string Connect()
        {
            string conString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["YourConnectionStringsName"].ConnectionString;

            if (conString.ToLower().StartsWith("metadata="))
            {
                System.Data.Entity.Core.EntityClient.EntityConnectionStringBuilder efBuilder = new System.Data.Entity.Core.EntityClient.EntityConnectionStringBuilder(conString);
                conString = efBuilder.ProviderConnectionString;
            }

            SqlConnectionStringBuilder cns = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder(conString);
            string dataSource = cns.DataSource;


            SqlConnectionStringBuilder sqlString = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder()
            {
                DataSource = cns.DataSource, // Server name
                InitialCatalog = cns.InitialCatalog,  //Database
                UserID = cns.UserID,         //Username
                Password = cns.Password,  //Password,
                MultipleActiveResultSets = true,
                ApplicationName = "EntityFramework",

            };
            //Build an Entity Framework connection string
            EntityConnectionStringBuilder entityString = new EntityConnectionStringBuilder()
            {
                Provider = "System.Data.SqlClient",
                Metadata = "res://*",
                ProviderConnectionString = sqlString.ToString()
            };
            return entityString.ConnectionString;
        }
    }
}