I had a windows service relying on EF, and it was running fine until the server went down. The problem was after the server went up again, it didn\'t fix itself and still t
Solution described here worked for me, modify the connection timeout in your connection string
FROM server='MySQLServer'';Integrated Security=true;Initial Catalog='EVConfiguration';Connection Timeout=100 TO server='MySQLServer';Integrated Security=true;Initial Catalog='EVConfiguration';Connection Timeout=0