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    <p>I am working on a code base that has a number of connection strings that access a database server by a specified name.</p> <pre><code>&lt;add name="myConnection" connectionString="Data Source=DevServer;Initial Catalog='devData';Persist Security Info=True;User ID=devUser;Password=devPass;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" /&gt; </code></pre> <p>I am in a location that does not have access to the named "DevServer" Data Source.<br> I have a version of the database hosted locally in "localhost".<br> What I would like to do is have my "localhost" database accessible via the Data Source named "DevServer". </p> <p>I don't want to lose the ability to access the server via "localhost" as I have other projects that use this as a Data Source. I <em>could</em> alter the config files, but I would then have to ensure that I don't check them in, as that would break the configuration for others. I still want to receive any updates to the config files, so having local writeable versions is not an option.</p> <p>I have tried using the SQL Server Configuration Manager to create an Alias, but I think that I did something wrong as I am still unable to connect using "DevServer".</p> <p>Should SQL Server Configuration Manager be able to achieve what I am trying?<br> Can anyone suggest a way that I can achieve this?</p> <p>I guess my question is similar to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/449607/point-to-localhost-sqlexpress-using-only-localhost">this</a> but there has been no accepted answer and it is for SQL Express.</p>
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