Question

If I use an app.conf file to define the connection for a SQL CE 4.0 DB, my app works fine.

How can I “initialize the connection” (hope this is the right term…) without an app.conf, in the code?

Here is what I have so far (not much):

SqlCeConnectionStringBuilder builder = new SqlCeConnectionStringBuilder();
builder["Data Source"] = "db.sdf";               

//What is missing here?

PartyDB DB = new PartyDB();

var dinners = from d in DB.Dinners                        
              select d;

Any hint is highly appreciated.

Answer 1

J. Tihon’s answer helped me. I am adding the following for future reference. I initialized the Database.DefaultConnectionFactory in the constructor.

public partial class MyDb: DbContext
{
    public static string Connection
    {
        get
        {

            var result = new SqlCeConnectionStringBuilder();

            result["Data Source"] = "MyDatabaseFile.sdf";

            return result.ToString();
        }
    }

    public MyDb()
        : base(Connection)
    {
        Database.DefaultConnectionFactory = new SqlCeConnectionFactory("System.Data.SqlServerCe.4.0");
    }

    protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
    {

    }

    public DbSet<MyTable> MyTable { get; set; }

}