At work we currently have a very large web application with a connection to a massive database. We have been using Entity Framework for a while now and to make things easier we
This is how I have implemented my solution to this problem:
namespace DBLibrary
{
public enum Models
{
Model1,
Model2
}
public static class Database
{
public static string EntitiesConnectionString(Models model)
{
SqlConnectionStringBuilder builder = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["Default"].ConnectionString);
builder["MultipleActiveResultSets"] = true;
builder["Connect Timeout"] = 30;
EntityConnectionStringBuilder entityBuilder = new EntityConnectionStringBuilder();
entityBuilder.Provider = "System.Data.SqlClient";
entityBuilder.ProviderConnectionString = builder.ConnectionString;
switch (model)
{
case Models.Model1:
entityBuilder.Metadata = "res://*/Model1.csdl|res://*/Model1.ssdl|res://*/Model1.msl";
return entityBuilder.ToString();
case Models.Model2:
entityBuilder.Metadata = "res://*/Model2.csdl|res://*/Model2.ssdl|res://*/Model2.msl";
return entityBuilder.ToString();
default:
throw new Exception("Invalid model, no connection string defined");
}
}
}
}
I still need to clean up the code and all but I think this give you a good idea on how this can be implemented. I would still be very interested if there are different and better ways of doing this.
Thanks!