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Question

I have a web project (C# Asp.Net, EF 4, MS SQL 2008 and IIS 7) and I need to migrate it to IIS 7 locally (at the moment works fine with CASSINI).

Locally in IIS I ha

Answer 1

Thought I'd post this as an answer as it is relevant to the question and can answer it in some cases.

That same message appears also if the database does not exist!

Be sure your connection string has no misspellings, is pointing to the right server instance, etc.