how to change the connectionstrings of a lightswitch application in debug mode

visual-studio-lightswitch

Solution

From Andy Kung lightswitch team:

If you attach to an external datasource, you can right click on that node in the Solution Explorer and select "Update Datasource" to modify the server info without recreating your screens.

EDITED

... but is not true.

You should change `applicationroot/ServerGenerated/Web.config` instead `applicationroot/bin/debug/web.config`.

Explanation:

If you turn to File View, in Data/ApplicationDefinition.lslm they are a reference to your connection string:

Then in `project\ServerGenerated\Web.config` locate the connection string:

<connectionStrings>
    <add name="_IntrinsicData" ... />
    <add name="e8f0cfed-653d-42fc-9617-bcaee11eed91" connectionString="HERE!!!!!!

Problem

please how do i change the connection string of a lightswitch application for debugging purposes . i have followed this post http://dougseven.com/2010/08/23/data-storage-in-visual-studio-lightswitch-2/ but i can seem to get it to work. anytime i change the web.config in the applicationroot/bin/debug when i run the application in debug mode the file gets recreated with the original value in the file. i have no problem changing it when publishing the app. and when i implement the change in the applicationdefinition.lsml file it has no effect

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