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 want to share my experience on this and how I solved it. In my case it happens because I copy and pasted my connection string on production server. My application was using Entity framework.

Problem was on metadata

I named my entity model as 'BetModel' but on my connection string I was using 'Entity' - 'res:///Entity.csdl|res:///Entity.ssdl|res://*/Entity.msl' on 'metadata' (reason was because i copy pasted it).

So my wrong ConnectionString was:

connectionString="metadata=res://*/Entity.csdl|res://*/Entity.ssdl|res://*/Entity.msl;provider=System.Data.SqlClient;provider connection string="data source=;initial catalog=;persist security info=True;user id=;password=;MultipleActiveResultSets=True;App=EntityFramework""

and the corrected ConnectionString was: