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Reputation: 1159

How to have entity framework saparated in another project

I've created WCF service application where I am using Entity Framework to access data. I created new Console application and added reference to my WCF service application.

I don't understand two things:

  1. Why I have to copy web.config from WCF Service Application to my Console application?
  2. Why I have to add Entity Framework Package to my Console Application?

My intention was have data access in separated project. Now I have to add configs and EF references to every project which wants to access data. That is inconvinient. Is there any way to get rid of that?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 49

Answers (1)

Henk Holterman
Henk Holterman

Reputation: 273199

and added reference to my WCF service application

That is possible but not the right thing to do.

It is better to put your Db related code in a separate Class Library and reference that from both projects. And maybe another Class Library for shared business logic.

Why I have to copy web.config

I'm surprised if that even works. Every end project (.EXE) needs to provide the configuration. No way around that. You probably have to copy the ConnectionString part to both the Web.Config and App.Config files of the end projects.

Why I have to add Entity Framework Package

Not always necessary but in this case probably for the configuration and setup. For most packages, it would be enough to add it once to the class library.
I wouldn't consider this a big deal. See "Manage Packages for Solution" when you right-click the solution node.

Upvotes: 1

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