Invalid object name 'dbo.EdmMetadata' and 'dbo.__MigrationHistory'

Question

I am using Entity Framework 5 and doing a simple query to get a few users from a table.

The SQL database is already created so I use my entities as a way to map what

Answer 1

Since the database is already there you will not have dbo.EdmMetadata and dbo.__MigrationHistory which codefirst is expecting. And to resolve this you can try to set the SetInitializer to null.

 static NameOfYourContext()
 {
   Database.SetInitializer(null);        
 }      

You can see this in the comments section of the this post by Scott Gu