ASP.NET System.Data.EntityClient connection string help

Question

I\'m running ASP.NET MVC on a shared server and I\'m having problems connecting to SQL via System.Data.EntityClient. Below is the connection string that my hosing provider

Answer 1

Change the provider from entityclient to sqlclient (assume code first EF).

providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" />

to

providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />