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 face this issue "Unable to retrieve metadata..." while I was dding a Controller. Solution for this is as follows.

1. In Connection String change provider to "system.data.sqlclient" 2.or Remove the Connection String from the Web.config and Add controller and after adding controller again add the connection String.

It seems this is a bug in MVC. I hope with this you can go ahead.