My Program uses EF to access data from a SQL CE database. When debug the application using debug setup it works fine but if I use release setup I get a MetadataException when the program tries to access the database through EF.
What I’ve checked so far:
- Debug and release configuration is identical (same target platform)
- The app.config is copied to the same directory as the executable (\Release)
- The sdf database file is copied to \Release\
- Metadata Artifact Processing is set to Embed in Output Assembly
- Connection string name is identical in app.config and EF model
My app.config:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
<connectionStrings>
<add name="GeoDataEntities" connectionString="metadata=res://*/Model.EF.Model.csdl|res://*/Model.EF.Model.ssdl|res://*/Model.EF.Model.msl;provider=System.Data.SqlServerCe.3.5;provider connection string="Data Source=|DataDirectory|\GeoData.sdf"" providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" />
</connectionStrings>
<startup>
<supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0" />
</startup>
</configuration>
The assembly Model.EF is the namespace and Model the name of the edmx, I think that should be right.
I know that there a lot of posts and blogs about MetadataException and I’ve tried to solve this but nothing have worked so far.
Best regards
Jay
I really don’t know what I’ve done but it’s working since I’ve checked in and checked out from TFS.