Question

I’ve got an application that’s an extension for another application. The primary application has a context which provides a connection string. In the past, I’ve setup entity framework and the first step is to set to connection string.

In this case, I can’t set the connection string because I don’t have it until runtime. Can I still use Entity Framework? If so, how do I set it up?

Answer 1

Absolutely:

SqlConnection dbConn = new SqlConnection("your_connection_string");
EntityConnection entityConnection = new EntityConnection(dbConn);
var yourEdmx = new DbModel(entityConnection);