Can code-first Entity Framework do cross database queries with SQL Server DBs on the same box?

Question

I know there have been a lot of questions about Entity Framework doing cross database queries on the same server posted to stackoverflow. Mostly the answer seems to be \'no\

Answer 1

I think that the answer is still no, but there are ways around it.

The reason why it is no, it that EF uses a DBContext, and a context has a connection string, and a connection string goes to a database.

Here are 2 ways around it:

• use 2 different contexts one against each database, this will mean bringing data to the client and merging it on the client.
• use linked tables on the database, pulling data through views, so that EF sees it as coming from a single database.

In your code it looks like you are using 2 dbcontexts