The specified named connection is either not found in the configuration, not intended to be used with the EntityClient provider, or not valid.
The specified named connection is either not found in the configuration, not intended to be used with the EntityClient provider, or not valid.
I wanted to share some bad with the good. I typically have a WCF RIA Services Class Library for every logical line of business in my enterprise application. With that said, I tend to have several libraries that are dedicated to different modules in my application.
When you create a new WCF RIA Services class library, it creates two projects. You get a project for the client and one for hosting the data access. One of the common mistakes I can make is to forget to copy the connection string information from the web project to the underlying hosting web application.
The title of this blog is the message from the exception that gets thrown if you forget to add the connection string entry in the underlying hosting web application web.config file.
This may not solve all of your problems with this exception but it is one to thing to remember.
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Hi there,
i created WCF project; by default it created silverlight project and web project. In web project i have created edmx file and domain services, its working fine on my local system. Upon uploading to shared hosting; it generate that error.
would you please explain what is mean by underlying hosting web application in my project.
Thanks!
In web project i have created edmx file and domain services, its working fine on my local system. Upon uploading to shared hosting; it generate that error. Please could you give me any idea on what to do?
Hi Moses,
I would check that your web.config includes the necessary mime-types as it could be something as simple as this.
If that doesn’t work ping me back and we can try something else.
Matt
I ran a check on my web.config and it includes all the necessary mime-types and yet it does not work. Please I would be glad if you can help me out here as this is causing me some embarrassment. the site name http://www.mobileshawarma.com you can check it out.
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Hi Matt,
Just to update you with my script. In my web.config file u have the following script
Please am I missing something or what?
I really need your help or help of anyone who can help me out here.
Thanks.
Moses.