Application can't scaffold items

Question

I created an MVC 5 application in VS 2013 Professional and then used EF 6.1 code first with an existing DB on SQL Server Express. When I try to create the views I’m using th

Answer 1

In my case I moved my connection strings out of the Web.config to

that when I started getting the error when I was trying to scaffold.

There was an error running the selected code generator: ‘Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.’

Moving my connection strings back to the Web.config solved my issue.