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    <p>I have a solution (All .NET 4.5 projects) which has a windows service, a WPF UI application and a data layer in which I have my EDMX model and a generic repository.</p> <p>When I debug the service, data ends up in the database and I want to UI to use the same database file when I launch it.</p> <p>So I created a directory like such:</p> <pre><code>[solution root directory]\Data </code></pre> <p>In which I put the MDF and LDF in. I made sure my EDMX model uses this MDF file when I do updates and such.</p> <p>For the service and the UI to use the same MDF file, I made sure their connection string use the <code>|DataDirectory|</code> symbol and do this when they both start:</p> <pre><code>public MainWindow() { string dataDir = Utilities.Utilities.ReturnDataDirectory(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()); AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetData("DataDirectory", dataDir); InitializeComponent(); Loaded += MainWindow_Loaded; } </code></pre> <p>Here's the code for <code>ReturnDataDirectory</code>:</p> <pre><code>public static string ReturnDataDirectory(Assembly referingAssembly) { string curDir = referingAssembly.Location; string dataDir = string.Empty; int x; var curDirArray = curDir.Split('\\'); //Return a directory without the 'Solution.Name\bin\Debug' part... for (x = 0; x &lt; (curDirArray.Count() - 4);x++ ) { dataDir += string.Format("{0}\\", curDirArray[x]); } return string.Format("{0}Data", dataDir); } </code></pre> <p>This generates the exact directory where the MDF file indeed resides so the problem is not there, AFAIK.</p> <p>Yet, when I start the WPF UI, I get this error:</p> <pre><code>An attempt to attach an auto-named database for file C:\\Dropbox\\My Docs\\MySolution\\MySolution.UI\\bin\\Debug\\MySolution.mdf failed. A database with the same name exists, or specified file cannot be opened, or it is located on UNC share. </code></pre> <p>Why on earth is it still trying to look there after setting <code>|DataDirectory|</code> correctly ? There is no MDF file there anyways, and that's how I intend it for the moment being.</p> <p>Here is the connection string used in the app.config of the WPF UI ap:</p> <pre><code>&lt;add name="MySolutionEntities" connectionString="metadata=res://*/MySolution.csdl|res://*/MySolution.ssdl|res://*/MySolution.msl;provider=System.Data.SqlClient;provider connection string=&amp;quot;data source=(LocalDB)\v11.0;attachdbfilename=|DataDirectory|\MySolution.mdf;integrated security=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=True;App=EntityFramework&amp;quot;" providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" /&gt; </code></pre> <p>What am I missing ?</p> <p>Thank you!</p> <p><strong>EDIT</strong>: This approach works for the Windows Service project, but not for the WPF UI application. Is it because I'm setting the <code>|DataDirectory|</code> too late ? I also tried sniffing something use Process Monitor, and I can't pickup the UI application trying to access an MDF whatsoever :(</p>
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