Having trouble with LinqPad Adding a Connection to Entity Framework

Question

I am new to Entity Framework and Linq to Entities and I want to try LinqPad but I can\'t figure out how to make a connection to the edmx model I have created. I have an MVC

Answer 1

I've had this exact problem with LinqPad 4.42.01. My project is a web project using an EF5 data assembly. I ended up creating a linqPad.config file (below) in the web projectMy and it works great.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
   <connectionStrings>
      <remove name="MySqlServer"/>
      <add name="MySqlServer" connectionString="Data Source=mydb;Initial Catalog=mycat;User ID=iamuser;Password=soopersekret;Trusted_Connection=False" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
   </connectionStrings>
</configuration>

Answer 2

I took configSections away from config file and connection works.

  <configSections>
    <!-- For more information on Entity Framework configuration, visit http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=237468 -->
    <section name="entityFramework" type="System.Data.Entity.Internal.ConfigFile.EntityFrameworkSection, EntityFramework, Version=4.3.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
  </configSections>
  <entityFramework>
    <defaultConnectionFactory type="System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure.SqlCeConnectionFactory, EntityFramework">
      <parameters>
        <parameter value="System.Data.SqlServerCe.4.0" />
      </parameters>
    </defaultConnectionFactory>
  </entityFramework>