The provider did not return a ProviderManifestToken string error

Question

I am trying to create a web app using ASP.Net MVC3, Entity Framework and MySQL.

I have added the following code to my Web.Config file.

Answer 1

Sometimes this issue arises because of sslmode as well, For me the solution was to add sslmode=None to connection string

I had to make a small change to my connection string from

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