I am using a VM instance of Server 2012 Datacenter and SQL Express 2012. Using VStudio I ported the auto-generated aspnetdb.mdf to the same instance of SQL Exp. 2012 as my site's data. The site data connection is working great. I need to add security to the site with roles/membership etc.
VStudio generated the connection string using an abstracted path to App_Data as the default. I attempted to mimic the path change using my data connection.
<connectionStrings> <add name="ApplicationServices" connectionString="data source=EOWYN\SQLEXPRESS2012;Integrated Security=SSPI;Initial Catalog=Intake_security;User Instance=true" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" /> <add name="Intake_be" connectionString="Data Source=EOWYN\SQLEXPRESS2012;Initial Catalog=Intake_dev;Integrated Security=True" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient& ...

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