Get the Entity Framework Connection String

Question

We use Entity Framework 5, but have a requirement to ALSO use a normal database connection from the application for some custom SQL we need to perform.

So, I am creating

Answer 1

Here is a generic way of getting the connection string:

   public string GetConnString(T ent)
            where T : ObjectContext
        {
            EntityConnection ec = (EntityConnection)ent.Connection;
            SqlConnection sc = (SqlConnection)ec.StoreConnection;
            return sc.ConnectionString;
        }

Then to use it would be:

 MyEntities ent = new MyEntities();
 String ConnString = GetConnString(ent);