Setting EF Connection String in Azure Web App

Question

We have an ASP .NET (MVC) app and are using Entity Framework 6 to connect to our databases. The DbContext is constructed in a standard way and it loads the connection string

Answer 1

Just recording my own experiences in addition to answers already recorded here

This was my final connection string (on mutliple lines for clarity)

metadata=res://*/Models.mBT.csdl|res://*/Models.mBT.ssdl|res://*/Models.mBT.msl;
provider=System.Data.SqlClient;
provider connection string="
  Data Source=tcp:myazureserver.database.windows.net,1433;
  Initial Catalog=databasename;
  User ID=z@myazureserver;
  Password=xyz"

To convert from a "normal" connection string to one that is accepted by EF:

• The connection string type in the application settings has to be "other" not "SQL Azure"
• The connection string value automatically replaces anything published in web.config
• The metadata name Models.mBT.csdl (and the other two) comes from this:

Firstly, mBT is the name of my .edmx file

With regards to the Model. bit, see the answer from @leqid here: MetadataException: Unable to load the specified metadata resource

You can inspect your obj directory and see these three metadata files are in a subfolder called Models, so you need to prepend with Models.