Using Entity Framework with an SQL Compact Private Installation

Question

I am using Entity Framework 4 in a desktop application with SQL Compact. I want to use a private installation of SQL Compact with my application, so that my install

Answer 1

Being stuck with the same problem,

"the specified store provider cannot be found in the configuration or is not valid."

I came around this post. I tried almost everything. I had installed "System.Data.SqlServerCe" using nugets.

So i already had below line of code added in my web.config

Still the error continued..

I got rid of problem by uncommenting the last two commented lines in above code...so now it becomes

Hope it helps.. Thanks.