Keyword not supported: 'server'

Question

I've been trying to edit my connection string for uploading my website to a server.
I am not really experienced with this. I got this exception: the Keyword not supported: 'server'.
Here is my connection string:

<add name="AlBayanEntities" connectionString="Server=xx.xx.xxx.xxx,xxxx;Database=AlBayan;Uid=bayan;Password=xxxxx;" providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" /> 

I've tried embed this string into my old connection string which works very well locally, but it didn't fit : S

Answer 1

For Entity Framework (database-first or model-first; when you have a physical EDMX model file) you need to use a special type of connection string which is quite different from the straight ADO.NET connection strings everyone else has mentioned so far...

The connection string must look something like:

<add name="testEntities"       connectionString="metadata=res://*/Model1.csdl|res://*/Model1.ssdl|res://*/Model1.msl;provider=System.Data.SqlClient;provider connection string=&quot;data source=(local);initial catalog=test;integrated security=True;multipleactiveresultsets=True;App=EntityFramework&quot;"       providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" /> 

Inside this connection string, you'll find the provider connection string= attribute which is basically your ADO.NET connection string:

provider connection string="data source=(local);initial catalog=test;integrated security=True;multipleactiveresultsets=True;App=EntityFramework""  

So here, you need to change your server name and possibly other settings.

• data source=.... stands for your server (you can also use server=.....)
• initial catalog=..... stands for your database (you can also use database=....)

Answer 2

In MVC5 using EntityFramework 6.xx and Code First Approach

I had the same problem and I solved this by modifying my providerName

from

 providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" 

to

providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"