Entity Framework - Unable to load the specified metadata resource

Question

I realise that this has been asked a number of times but I just can\'t seem to get the bottom of my issue. I\'m getting the following error stack:

Answer 1

If you're using the dotnet CLI

For newer visitors using the new dotnet build tooling to build Entity Framework 6.x based projects, know that it currently does NOT embed any metadata into the final build. So if you run from within VS it'll run, but if your CI scripts use dotnet then they will fail on the server until you switch back to msbuild. IMHO, this is a bug and the tools should handle this. You can chime on the GitHub thread if needed.