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

I am sharing my code with another developer and he had this problem.No connection string differences. All the files OK... I fixed it by setting

• Metadata Artifact Processing from: "Embed in Output Assembly" to "Copy to output directory" ,
• rebuilding the project,
• and then setting it back again.

This worked, I assume, because the individual files (CSDL/MSL/SSDL files) were created in the output directory when it used "copy to output directory". Apparently there was a bug that required them for the embedded version to work. Hope this helps :)