Changing the EF connection string gives - Keyword not supported: 'metadata'

Question

For the past few hours I've been looking into this problem, found many similar topics but none of them seems to help.

I have a C# application that uses the Entity Framework 5 and I have a .edmx data model that works fine when using the connection string from the app config file.

Now I would like to change the connection string during runtime, but it throws an exception that says:

Keyword not supported: 'metadata'.

Here is the code that I have:

private string GetNewConnectionString(string server, string database, string username, string password)
{
    var sqlBuilder = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder()
    {
        DataSource = server,
        InitialCatalog = database,
        UserID = username,
        Password = password,
        IntegratedSecurity = true,
        MultipleActiveResultSets = true
    };

    var entityBuilder = new EntityConnectionStringBuilder()
    {
        Provider = "System.Data.SqlClient",
        ProviderConnectionString = sqlBuilder.ToString(),
        Metadata = "res://*/MyTestModel.MyTestModel.csdl|res://*/MyTestModel.MyTestModel.ssdl|res://*/MyTestModel.MyTestModel.msl"
    };

    return entityBuilder.ToString();
}

public void insertInDB()
{
    var newConnectionString = GetNewConnectionString(server, database, username, password);
    //newConnectionString = newConnectionString .Replace("\"", """); // doesn't help
    //newConnectionString = newConnectionString .Replace("\"", "'"); // doesn't help either

     using (var context = new MyTestModel.MyEntities(newConnectionString)) // it crashes here
     {

     }
 }

The metadata should be correct, because I have copied it from the app config file, also if I copy the value of newConnectionString to the app config and use it, it works fine if I replace the quotations with " .

This is the value of newConnectionString (i've only replaced the credentials with some dummy credentials):

metadata=res:// /MyTestModel.MyTestModel.csdl|res:// /MyTestModel.MyTestModel.ssdl|res://*/MyTestModel.MyTestModel.msl;provider=System.Data.SqlClient;provider connection string="Data Source=myServer;Initial Catalog=myDatabase;Integrated Security=True;User ID=myDbUser;Password=myDbUserPassword;MultipleActiveResultSets=True"

I cannot see what is wrong with it, can anybody spot something?

Answer 1

This answer: Entity Framework change connection at runtime solves the problem

I cannot understand what the problem with my code was, but it works fine with the extension method from the link.