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How to check in ASP.NET MVC View if site is running on localhost or 127.0.0.1

I am using two entry for connection string in web.config, and i am using HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress for detection between deployment and development environment:

public static SqlConnection GetSqlConnection()
{
    if (HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress != "127.0.0.1")
    ...
    else
    ...
}

but problem is here, some times HttpContext.Current is null and raise exception (i.e: when scheduled task is runed in asp.net from global.asax).
is there any general solution for this?

Answer 1

You’re supposed to change the connection string in the configuration file between environments. That’s why they’re stored in a configuration file in the first place, so you wouldn’t have to do this.

I prefer to put connection strings in a separate file and not deploy it at all. The same can be done with other configuration that’s environment specific. Another way is to use an XML transform as a part of your build job to change the connection string when deploying into production.