EF recovery from invalidoperationexception caused by server being down

Question

I had a windows service relying on EF, and it was running fine until the server went down. The problem was after the server went up again, it didn\'t fix itself and still t

Answer 1

What is the lifetime of your ObjectContext? If you are using a single ObjectContext for the lifetime of your service that would cause problems like this. You should instead scope the ObjectContext lifetime down to a smaller window of time, creating a new one for each unit of work.

Answer 2

Solution described here worked for me, modify the connection timeout in your connection string

FROM server='MySQLServer'';Integrated Security=true;Initial Catalog='EVConfiguration';Connection Timeout=100 TO server='MySQLServer';Integrated Security=true;Initial Catalog='EVConfiguration';Connection Timeout=0