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

If by any chance you are following "Getting Started with Entity Framework 6 Code First using MVC 5" by Tom Dykstra.

I doubled check everything and my connection string is perfect. What I failed to realize was I copied another set of appSettings which I already have. Look below

My advice is to check every inch of Web.config and I'm sure that is the culprit.