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

Entity framework will recreate your database on application start assuming the following:

• You have permission to create databases in SQL
• A connection string is specified correctly (if it was working before this should be fine)
• You are using CodeFirst or ModelFirst strategies for databases (ie if you generated an EDMX off an existing database it wont recreate it for you)