RelationalDatabaseCreator.CanConnect Method

Definition

Namespace:

Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Storage

Assembly:

Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Relational.dll

Package:

Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Relational v8.0.0

Determines whether or not the database is available and can be connected to.

public virtual bool CanConnect ();

abstract member CanConnect : unit -> bool
override this.CanConnect : unit -> bool

Public Overridable Function CanConnect () As Boolean

Returns

Boolean

true if the database is available; false otherwise.

Implements

CanConnect()

Remarks

Any exceptions thrown when attempting to connect are caught and not propagated to the application.

The configured connection string is used to create the connection in the normal way, so all configured options such as timeouts are honored.

Note that being able to connect to the database does not mean that it is up-to-date with regard to schema creation, etc.