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SqlClient: Allow |DataDirectory| macro in AttachDBFilename

See original GitHub issue

Now that .NET Standard 2.0 includes AppDomain.GetData, there shouldn’t be anything blocking the implementation to expand the |DataDirectory| substitution string in the AttachDBFilename value of the connection string.

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Created 6 years ago
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Comments:8 (5 by maintainers)

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bricelamcommented, Nov 21, 2019

Yeah, but we already have the code to handle |DataDirectory| during CREATE DATABASE in EF Core 3.0.0, so if you just update SqlClient it should all work.

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cheenamalhotracommented, Nov 20, 2019

Closing as #284 has been merged and fix will be available in v1.1.0

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