Providing connection string to an EF 5.0 model

Question

Trying to upgrade to EF5 and I have an issue with not having a model constructor which allows a connection string.

In the older EF Designer.cs code their was:

   public CVEntities() : base("name=CVEntities", "CVEntities")
        {

and also

    public CVEntities(string connectionString) : base(connectionString, "CVEntities")
        {
            this.ContextOptions.LazyLoadingEnabled = true;
            OnContextCreated();
        }

Now in EF 5 their is only CVEntities()

In my class I need to create a model using a constructor

 CVEntities ctx =   new CVEntities(this.ConnectionString);

How can you do this in EF5?

Answer 1

Hi chuck02323,

Welcome to MSDN Forum.

Could you please clarify what the version of .NET you are using? How the Context generated? By template or default?

Best Regards

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Allen Li [MSFT]
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Answer 2

VS12, .net 4.5, EF5

I created a class that needs to use a connection string.

The code in the class looks like this:

 CVEntities ctx =   new CVEntities(this.ConnectionString);

However, it errors because now their is only a () constructor.
The model was created using the designer.

Answer 3

Hi chuck02323;

It appears that in VS 2012 when using the designer they are setting "Code Generation Strategy" to None and are using T4 templats to create the model which seems to have only one constructor. You can still use the default code generation by setting "Code Generation Strategy" property in the designer to default and deleting the two files under the edmx node in Solution Explorer with the extension .tt and then recompile and at this point things should be as in earlier version in EF. Why and what is the differences with the new settings besides ObjectContext constructors I do not know.

  

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Fernando (MCSD)

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