The type initializer for 'System.Data.Entity.Internal.AppConfig' threw an exception

Question

I\'m working with EF5 in a MVC 4 aspnet website. Locally, everything works just fine, but when I publish it to the IIS and try to enter, I get the error

Answer 1

The general issue is just any issue involving Machine/Web/App configs.

I had the same connection strings in Machine.Config as in my App.Config so I put before my first connection string in my App.Config

Answer 2

actual error thrown Message=Unrecognized element 'providers' in web.config so from the web.config file remove the providers section