Change default location of LocalDb

Question

I am programming with EF5-code first and want to use LocalDb. How can I change the default location of LocalDb database file? Default location is %USERPROFILE% directory accordi

Answer 1

I got this working thanks to this post. The answer is simple. Basically I added

  <connectionStrings>
<add name="DataModel.Context" connectionString="Data Source=(LocalDb)\v11.0;Initial Catalog=database;Integrated Security=SSPI;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|\database.mdf" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />

to the configuration section of app.config and it magically replaced the "database" with my actuall database (DbContext) name. EF code first also works perfectly to create the database if it doesn't exist.