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    <p>I'm using Entity Framework 4 for a simple app and would like to bake my connection credentials into the following connection string:</p> <pre><code>&lt;connectionStrings&gt; &lt;add name="MyEntities" connectionString="metadata=res://*/MyDataModel.csdl|res://*/MyDataModel.ssdl|res://*/MyDataModel.msl;provider=System.Data.SqlClient;provider connection string=&amp;quot;Data Source=localhost\DEV;Initial Catalog=MyDB;UserId=myUser;Password=jack&amp;jill;MultipleActiveResultSets=True&amp;quot;" providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" /&gt; &lt;/connectionStrings&gt; </code></pre> <p>However, the password (which I cannot change) contains an ampersand. ASP.NET throws: <code>Configuration Error: An error occurred while parsing EntityName. Line XX, position YYY.</code></p> <p>If I replace the ampersand in the password with <code>&amp;amp;</code>, I get a <code>SqlException: Login failed for user 'myUser'.</code> Usually this trick works, but I'm guessing that something is failing because this is technically a connection string inside a connection string.</p> <p>What should I do here? Most of my classes include code like:</p> <pre><code>using (var context = new MyEntities()) { // do work } </code></pre> <hr> <p><strong>Update:</strong> It turns out that the credentials I am using are a domain account, so what I really need is <code>Integrated Security=True</code> in the connection string rather than a password.</p> <p>Encoding the ampersand as indicated in the accepted answer <em>should</em> work fine, though I haven't tested it.</p>
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