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:

Format of the initializ

Answer 1

Assuming it is the password which contains a single quote, you should try enclosing the password in xml encoded double-quotes, something like this :

Assuming you are not in Xml context (as mentionned by @PanagiotisKanavos ) the ConnectionString initialization would look like :

var conn = new SqlConnection("Data Source=.;
    Initial Catalog=MYDB; User ID=MyUser;Password=\"my'password\";
    providerName="System.Data.SqlClient")