Data Access Framework

Data Access Framework provides an easy configuration parameters to create a database context for entity framework.

Requirements

• .NET Framework 4.0 or higher
• Entity Framework 6.0 or higher

Configurations

In order to use Data Access Framework within your application, you should add the followings into your app.config or web.config.

configSections

Add the following <section> element into the <configSections> element.

<configSections>
  <section name="connectionSettings"
           type="DataAccessFramework.Configuration.ConnectionSettings, DataAccessFramework.Configuration"
           requirePermission="false" />
</configSections>

connectionSettings

Add the following <connectionSettings> element under the <configuration> element – the root element.

<connectionSettings>
  <connectionDetails>
    <clear />
    <add key="ApplicationDataContext"
         use="true"
         type="EntityFramework"
         dataContext="ApplicationDataContext"
         dataSource="(LocalDB)\v11.0"
         initialCatalog="ApplicationDatabase"
         persistSecurityInfo="true"
         integratedSecurity="true"
         multipleActiveResultSets="true"
         connectionTimeout="30"
         provider="System.Data.SqlClient" />
  </connectionDetails>
</connectionSettings>

Getting Started

Once configuration is complete like above, you can build your connection string and use it like:

var settings = ConfigurationManager.GetSection("connectionSettings") as ConnectionSettings;
var builder = new ConnectionBuilder(settings);
var connectionString = builder.GetConnectionString(key);

// For SQL Connection
using (var sqlConnection = builder.GetSqlConnection(key))
{
  ...
}

// For Entity Framework #1
using (var context = new ApplicationDataContext(connectionString))
{
  ...
}

// For Entity Framework #2
using (var sqlConnection = builder.GetSqlConnection(key))
using (var context = new ApplicationDataContext(sqlConnection))
{
  ...
}

License

Data Access Framework is released under MIT License.

The MIT License (MIT)

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