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Asked: 2026-06-04T02:53:39+00:00

I have created a new MVC3 project and used the ADO.NET Entity Data Model

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I have created a new MVC3 project and used the ADO.NET Entity Data Model to map out my existing database. It worked great.

Now, that is a database I don’t want to affect when doing development of my web app, so I was looking to now attach that data model to a local database (haven’t selected one yet, suggestions welcome. I was thinking SQL Server CE or MySQL).

Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this? I’d be nice to keep the existing connection string to my live database as well as this development database environment.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can generate another matching DB using whatever technology you want (though it would be good to keep them similar to your production DB) and then have a Web.Debug and a Web.Release setup.

    If you look at swapping out the configuration, connection string portion of your web.config file you can easily swap from development to production.

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd465326.aspx

    This provides the relevant information for the transform statements in your Web.config file, but from the sounds of it you can simply swap the connection portion of your web.config and get what you want.

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