MVC3 Music Store Tutorial Connection String issue

Question

I\'m working my way through the MVC Music Store Tutorial and am running into an issue when I try to connect to the database using the entity framework model. I\'ve tried a

Answer 1

You could be missing the username and password from your conn string? Application and timeout are other parameters you might need depending on your set up. Check out http://www.connectionstrings.com for more help with SQL 2005.

Furthermore, Entity Framework requires many more parameters in the connection string. I have not used the code first approach yet but if you have existing tables you wish to map then EF has a wizard you can use to identify the database objects you want to work with. To get this far you have to provide a valid connection string to the dialog. In doing so VS will populate your web.config with the well formed and fully constructed conn string for use with EF.