Unable to Retrieve Metadata

Question

MVC4 + Entity Framework 4.4 + MySql + POCO/Code First

I\'m setting up the above configuration .. here are my classes:

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Answer 1

I've been having the same problem using EF 4.3.1 and MySql Connecter/Net 6.6.4.0

This worked for me, no need to connect to a different db or extra code in the Context class.

Add this between the entityFramework tags in your web.config file when you want to build a scaffold:

Then comment the above code out when you want to run migrations and vice versa.

So you web.config will look like so:

This is quite ridiculous how .NET developers have to jump through some arduous hoops in order to get their code working.

Working example

https://github.com/dublinan/mvc-mysql-ef-example

Links to my github project