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

I tried most of the above without luck.

What finally worked was:

1. Delete the previously dynamically created string entry
2. Delete my model (keeping all controllers and views)
3. Recreate the ADO.NET Entity Data Model - using the same name, creating a new connection string entry with the same name as before

Then everything worked again, minus 3 hours of development time.

4. re-add (from a backup) all of my property attributes to the table/entity classes

Seems to have something to do with the dynamically created connection string and the model. Would appreciate any thoughts on what could have happened.