Setting the EPiServer connection string programmatically
Apr 02, 2015
A customer asked if it was possible to set the database connection string programmatically in an EPiServer site. In the customer's specific example they wanted to use a configuration database rather than store any configuration in a .config file.
This can be achieved by creating a custom IDatabaseFactory implementation that allows you to set the connection string programmatically:
Then letting EPiServer know that this should be used in place of the default implementation using an initialization module:
It should be noted that IDatabaseFactory that "IDatabaseFactory supports the EPiServer infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code." so be careful!
I've not tested this beyond a basic smoke test so please do let me know if you find any problems with the implementation...