Apostrophe (single quote) in connection string

Question

I\'m having a trouble with the \' character in a connection string. Entity Framework throws an exception saying:

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Answer 1

I have finally stumbled upon a correct answer. It appears, you have to surround the value with single quotes and additionally duplicate the inner apostrophe in order to escape it, like this:

Password='test''password'

This is such a dumb problem to waste this much time on. I hope it saves somebody time in the future.

Thanks to everyone for participating.