(VS2017) There was an error running the selected code generator: 'Sequence contains no elements'

Question

I\'m running through one of Microsoft\'s tutorials on MVC development and I\'m getting errors when trying to create various elements; Views, Controllers, etc.

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Answer 1

Try clearing the ComponentModelCache, the cache will rebuild next time VS is launched.

1. Close Visual Studio Delete everything in this folder
2. C:\Users\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\ComponentModelCache
3. Restart Visual Studio 14.0 is for visual studio 2015. This will work for other versions also.

Credit to https://stackoverflow.com/a/35815094/5209435

Edit

Are your providerNames in the connectionString section of your web.config file the same?

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