MVC “Add Controller” is “Unable to Retrieve Metadata…Config System Failed to Initialize”

Question

From scratch, I made a new solution with two projects: one was MVC 3 and the other a supporting EF 4.2 project. The whole thing builds successfully. From the MVC project I

Answer 1

I added this to my Global.Asax file so that a) the database was started immediately and b) the table definition was added. allowing the Controller to find the table definition:

 System.Data.Entity.Database.SetInitializer(new CreateDatabaseIfNotExists());