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

Late reply; but, I am posting this answers with the hope that somebody can use this answer to solve their problem.

For some reason, if your program CANNOT read connectionString information (either from web.config or from other means) then, this error will be thrown.

Make sure that valid connectionString information is being retrieved properly without any problem.