Entity Framework defaultConnectionFactory for MySQL

Question

The below configuration works fine when I specify the connectionString name as a parameter to the base constructor. Because I want to be able to change the default provider

Answer 1

The name property of the connectionString must be the same as your context. This works fine:

  <connectionStrings>
    <add name="NAMEOFYOURCONTEXT" providerName="MySql.Data.MySqlClient" connectionString="Server=localhost;Database=abc;Uid=root;Pwd='';" />
  </connectionStrings>
  <entityFramework>
    <defaultConnectionFactory type="MySql.Data.Entity.MySqlConnectionFactory, MySql.Data.Entity.EF6"></defaultConnectionFactory>
    <providers>
      <provider invariantName="MySql.Data.MySqlClient" type="MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlProviderServices, MySql.Data.Entity.EF6"></provider>
    </providers>
  </entityFramework>