I am trying to set up a web form project in .Net with SDL Web 8.5 as we do in case of previous version of Tridion [2013/2011]. I found the [link][1] to connect to Broker db using the CIL. Is there any way so that I can directly use the cd_storage_conf.xml to connect to broker db, with out using the discovery service? **Update: 1** I implemented the .Net web application for the legacy application. The web site is working fine for the static content, but when I am using the dynamic component presentation it is not rendering anything. The web page contains the following dynamic CP links. [![enter image description here][2]][2] But the web page is totally blank. When I checked the logs I found this. [![enter image description here][3]][3] Do I need to any reference for this ?? `** I have upgraded the Tridion 2011 to Sdl web 8.5 also when I am trying to access the content using CIL the contents are getting rendered` [1]: https://community.sdl.com/solutions/content-management/tridion/b/blog-posts/posts/getting-started-with-content-interaction-library-cil-in-web-8-it-39-s-really-quite-simple [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/N813p.png [3]: https://i.sstatic.net/rfA9f.png