3 Comments on “You need to specify the connection string, stored in app.config, for PassGuideApp”

1. John Galt says:

   December 22, 2014 at 12:15 am

   The specified answer does not seem completely correct. After a lot of googling here’s what I came up with:
   1) connectionString = ‘metadata=xyz://PassGuide.Data’
   2) Culture = neutral, pretty obvious
   3) provider = ???
   4) providerName = “Ssytem.Data.EntityClient”

   All, but the 3rd answer are pretty obvious. Now the suggested answer is:

   3) provider=”System.Data.EntityClient;provider connection string = ‘DataSoruce=localhost;’

   but after a lot of googling, I never saw a connection string using that combination. In fact all cases were using:

   3) provider=”System.Data.SqlClient;provider connection string = ‘DataSoruce=localhost;’

   And that is the answer I’ll be sticking with. See the following link for details:
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.entityclient.entityconnection.connectionstring%28v=vs.110%29.aspx

   Here’s the conneciton string suggested by Micorsoft, note that they use SqlClient as I suggested:

   
   
   
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2. John Galt says:

   December 22, 2014 at 12:17 am

   (… apparently this forum strips xml code, so you’ll have to go to the link specified to see the connection string)

   
   
   
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3. Jim BBQ says:

   February 7, 2015 at 9:22 pm

   Yes, the provider should be System.Data.SqlClient
   and providerName to be System.Data.EntityClient

   
   
   
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