The underlying provider failed on open entity framework

Question

I am unsing entity framework in my web application. Earlier everything was working fine. But then I deleted database from Sql Server. After that whenever I run the applicati

Answer 1

Can you show some details about connection string. I basically want to check the authentication you are using. Demo for setting a typical authentication : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff649314.aspx

Another possibility can be with connection pooling. Try explicitly closing the connection(if there are any open connections)

db.Database.Connection.Close();