No Entity Framework provider found for the ADO.NET provider with invariant name 'System.Data.SqlClient'.

Question

We are using EntityFramework 6 with Code First. We have a console app that has no reference to EntityFramework but reads the connection string from its App.config. It call

Answer 1

For me it turned out that my provider reference in the web.config file was incorrect. I believe that the nuget package might not properly include the provider.

I replaced my provider with this and it worked: