The type initializer for 'System.Data.Entity.Internal.AppConfig' threw an exception

Question

I\'m working with EF5 in a MVC 4 aspnet website. Locally, everything works just fine, but when I publish it to the IIS and try to enter, I get the error

Answer 1

This weird error happens, when you play around with different versions of EntityFramework versions in Nuget Packages like I did.

First, Uninstall your Entity Framework DLL from NuGet packages and then Clean up app.config. By removing the entry from configSections and entity framework element.

Next, install the desired version. This should fix the problem.