Entity Framework getting an sql connection

Question

In the light of Closing connections explicitly in Entity Framework and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738582%28v=vs.90%29.aspx it seems that I should be using the con

Answer 1

If the EF connection string is stored in your web config file, you can assign it to a SQL Data Source with this code:

            var connString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["MyDataEntities"].ConnectionString;
            EntityConnection ec = new EntityConnection(connString);
            var storeConnect = ec.StoreConnection;

            SqlDataSource1.ConnectionString = storeConnect.ConnectionString;

Answer 2

I believe the easiest way to create a SqlConnection in EF6 is to do the following:

DBContext context = new DBContext();
SqlConnection sqlconn = new SqlConnection(context.Database.Connection.ConnectionString);