SQL Azure EF Database First Connection String in Azure Management Portal

Question

I have a site running n Azure, which uses EF Database First model.

If I embed the connection string in the web.config and deploy all is rosy.

Answer 1

The problem is not the connection string, but the inability to specify the providerName from the portal.

Try publishing with a local or dummy connection string in place, and overwriting it as you have in the Azure Application Settings. See this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/18964294/94853