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Entity Framework needs the metadata to build your entity mappings.
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Entity Framework needs the metadata to build your entity mappings.

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Hello all,<br />
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I have the following as an example:<br />
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&lt;add name=&quot;CustomerEntities&quot; connectionString=&quot;metadata<wbr />=res://*/C<wbr />ustomer.cs<wbr />dl|res://*<wbr />/Customer.<wbr />ssdl|res:/<wbr />/*/Custome<wbr />r.msl;prov<wbr />ider=Syste<wbr />m.Data.Sql<wbr />Client;pro<wbr />vider connection string=&amp;quot;data source=DB111-SERVER;initia<wbr />l catalog=Customer;integrate<wbr />d security=True;multipleacti<wbr />veresultse<wbr />ts=True;ap<wbr />plication name=EntityFramework&amp;quot;<wbr />&quot; providerName=&quot;System.Data.<wbr />EntityClie<wbr />nt&quot; /&gt;<br />
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I need to get the server name only into a string variable so &quot;DB111-SERVER&quot;. &nbsp; I tried using the SQL SqlConnectionStringBuilder<wbr /> but it throws an error on metadata doesn't understand it.
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Hello all,

I have the following as an example:

<add name="CustomerEntities" connectionString="metadata=res://*/Customer.csdl|res://*/Customer.ssdl|res://*/Customer.msl;provider=System.Data.SqlClient;provider connection string=&quot;data source=DB111-SERVER;initial catalog=Customer;integrated security=True;multipleactiveresultsets=True;application name=EntityFramework&quot;" providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" />

I need to get the server name only into a string variable so "DB111-SERVER".   I tried using the SQL SqlConnectionStringBuilder but it throws an error on metadata doesn't understand it.

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