Question

I am trying to figure out Entity Framework but I keep running into issues with the context. I create my .edmx file and it works fine but when I try to declare my context on my pages Visual Studio will not find them. My .edmx file is called YCLModel.edmx and my connectionstring for it is YCLEntites.

I try to declare the context as:

Dim yclcontext as new YCLEntites

I have also tried going into design mode and dragging from the toolbox but when I select my named connection it gives me the following error:

The metadata specified in the connection string could not be loaded.
Consider rebuilding the web project to build assemblies that may
contain metadata. The following error(s) occurred:

Unable to load the specified metadata resource.

Answer 1

The issue was the edmx file was in the app_data folder.