/// <summary>
/// Creates the entity connection with wrappers.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="entityConnectionString">The original entity connection string. This may also be a single word, e.g., "MyEntities", in which case it is translated into "name=MyEntities" and looked up in the application configuration.</param>
/// <param name="wrapperProviders">List for wrapper providers.</param>
/// <returns>EntityConnection object which is based on a chain of providers.</returns>
public static EntityConnection CreateEntityConnectionWithWrappers(string entityConnectionString, params string[] wrapperProviders)
{
// If there is only a single word in the connection string, treat it as the value for Name.
if (!entityConnectionString.Contains('='))
{
entityConnectionString = "name=" + entityConnectionString;
}
EntityConnectionStringBuilder ecsb = new EntityConnectionStringBuilder(entityConnectionString);
// if connection string is name=EntryName, look up entry in the config file and parse it
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(ecsb.Name))
{
var connStr = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings[ecsb.Name];
if (connStr == null)
{
throw new ArgumentException("Specified named connection string '" + ecsb.Name + "' was not found in the configuration file.");
}
ecsb.ConnectionString = connStr.ConnectionString;
}
var workspace = metadataWorkspaceMemoizer.GetOrAdd(ecsb.ConnectionString, _ => CreateWrappedMetadataWorkspace(ecsb.Metadata, wrapperProviders));
var storeConnection = DbProviderFactories.GetFactory(ecsb.Provider).CreateConnection();
storeConnection.ConnectionString = ecsb.ProviderConnectionString;
var newEntityConnection = new EntityConnection(workspace, DbConnectionWrapper.WrapConnection(storeConnection, wrapperProviders));
return(newEntityConnection);
}
