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Asked: 2026-05-26T14:51:06+00:00

Using Entity 4.1 for a project, and couldn’t figure out where the DB file

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Using Entity 4.1 for a project, and couldn’t figure out where the DB file been stored inside my project.

I think I’ve read that Entity code first will still store your data in SQL Express DB at a default location, but couldn’t find out where it is.

What I did is:

  1. create Entity DB project (Project A) in my solution, this project will have an Initializer to generate sample data for testing.

  2. I also create a separate project (Project B) to save my Entity Code first data for testing by another application.

  3. Then I create another WinForm project(Project C) in the same solution, and access DBContext from Project A.

I would assume that the DB should be somewhere in my Project C, and test projects in the solution shouldn’t make a difference?

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  1. Editorial Team

    With a default installation of SQL Server Express and no connection string the database will be created in the DATA directory of the installation, for example something like: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\DATA (for 2008 R2 version). The name of the database is namespace.contextname, for example: MyNamespace.MyContext.mdf (and .ldf). Under this name you can also find them in SQL Server Management Studio.

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