NHibernate Configuration in web.config - use existing connectionstring

Question

I have my NHibernate configuration successfully set up in my web.config file. However, I am also using ASP.NET Membership which requires a connectionstring to be defined in the connectionStrings element. Is there a way I can make my NHibernate configuration use this value so I don't need to define the connection string twice?

TIA!

Answer 1

You can use connection.connection_string_name element in the NHibernate configuration. Have a look here. Then NHibernate will get connection string by name from web.config file You need to use hibernate.connection.connection_string_name attribute in configuration

With fluent configuration you can do the following

ConnectionString(c=>c.FromConnectionStringWithKey("YourConnStrName"))

Answer 2

Just to add to sly's answer, you can do this using FluentNHibernate like this (in your fluent config):

.ConnectionString(c=>c.FromConnectionStringWithKey("con_development"))