How to fix error ::Format of the initialization string does not conform to specification starting at index 0::

Question

I uploaded my site on godaddy shared host. I can access this database from my management studio. I can\'t access this database from my site

Answer 1

Another pitfall is that connectionString sometimes refers to the name of the connection string in the app/web-config and sometimes to the actual connection string itself and vice versa.

Very easy to fix but sometimes hard to spot.