I have been developing a demo MVC application and trying it to connect to Teradata Database. But I have been failing since long . I tried whatever I could do as a newbie to this field but apparently have not been able to solve the problem. In my controller class VS2010 is throwing the error "The context cannot be used while the model is being created" and "Specified cast is not valid."
My web.config looks like this
<add name="LoginUserModelContext" connectionString="Data Source=10.10.20.59;User ID=dbc;Password=dbc;" providerName="Teradata.Client.Provider" />
And LoginUserModelContext class looks like this
using System.Data.Entity; namespace MvcApplication1.Models { public class LoginUserModelContext : DbContext { public LoginUserModelContext() : base("name=LoginUserModelContext") { } public DbSet<LoginUserModel> LoginUserModels { get; set; } } }
Also the Global.asax.cs looks like this
public class MvcApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication { protected void Application_Start() { Database.SetInitializer<MvcApplication1.Models.LoginUserModelContext>(null); AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas(); WebApiConfig.Register(GlobalConfiguration.Configuration); FilterConfig.RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters); RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes); BundleConfig.RegisterBundles(BundleTable.Bundles); AuthConfig.RegisterAuth(); } }
Though each and every time I am getting the following exception
at Teradata.Client.Entity.TdProviderManifest.GetStringStoreType(ReadOnlyMetadataCollection`1 facets) at Teradata.Client.Entity.TdProviderManifest.GetStoreType(TypeUsage edmType) at System.Data.Entity.ModelConfiguration.Edm.Services.StructuralTypeMappingGenerator.MapTableColumn(EdmProperty property, DbTableColumnMetadata tableColumnMetadata, Boolean isInstancePropertyOnDerivedType, Boolean isKeyProperty) at System.Data.Entity.ModelConfiguration.Edm.Services.PropertyMappingGenerator.Generate(EdmEntityType entityType, IEnumerable`1 properties, DbEntitySetMapping entitySetMapping, DbEntityTypeMappingFragment entityTypeMappingFragment, IList`1 propertyPath, Boolean createNewColumn) at System.Data.Entity.ModelConfiguration.Edm.Services.EntityTypeMappingGenerator.Generate(EdmEntityType entityType, DbDatabaseMapping databaseMapping) at System.Data.Entity.ModelConfiguration.Edm.Services.DatabaseMappingGenerator.GenerateEntityTypes(EdmModel model, DbDatabaseMapping databaseMapping) at System.Data.Entity.ModelConfiguration.Edm.Services.DatabaseMappingGenerator.Generate(EdmModel model) at System.Data.Entity.ModelConfiguration.Edm.EdmModelExtensions.GenerateDatabaseMapping(EdmModel model, DbProviderManifest providerManifest) at System.Data.Entity.DbModelBuilder.Build(DbProviderManifest providerManifest, DbProviderInfo providerInfo) at System.Data.Entity.DbModelBuilder.Build(DbConnection providerConnection) at System.Data.Entity.Internal.LazyInternalContext.CreateModel(LazyInternalContext internalContext) at System.Data.Entity.Internal.RetryLazy`2.GetValue(TInput input) at System.Data.Entity.Internal.LazyInternalContext.InitializeContext() at System.Data.Entity.Internal.InternalContext.Initialize() at System.Data.Entity.Internal.InternalContext.GetEntitySetAndBaseTypeForType(Type entityType) at System.Data.Entity.Internal.Linq.InternalSet`1.Initialize() at System.Data.Entity.Internal.Linq.InternalSet`1.GetEnumerator() at System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure.DbQuery`1.System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<TResult>.GetEnumerator() at System.Collections.Generic.List`1..ctor(IEnumerable`1 collection) at System.Linq.Enumerable.ToList[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source) at MvcApplication1.Controllers.LoginUserController.Index() in C:\Users\cnandy\Desktop\MyMVC4\MvcApplication1\MvcApplication1\Controllers\LoginUserController.cs:line 21 at lambda_method(Closure , ControllerBase , Object[] ) at System.Web.Mvc.ActionMethodDispatcher.Execute(ControllerBase controller, Object[] parameters) at System.Web.Mvc.ReflectedActionDescriptor.Execute(ControllerContext controllerContext, IDictionary`2 parameters) at System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionMethod(ControllerContext controllerContext, ActionDescriptor actionDescriptor, IDictionary`2 parameters) at System.Web.Mvc.Async.AsyncControllerActionInvoker.<>c__DisplayClass42.<BeginInvokeSynchronousActionMethod>b__41() at System.Web.Mvc.Async.AsyncResultWrapper.<>c__DisplayClass8`1.<BeginSynchronous>b__7(IAsyncResult _) at System.Web.Mvc.Async.AsyncResultWrapper.WrappedAsyncResult`1.End() at System.Web.Mvc.Async.AsyncControllerActionInvoker.EndInvokeActionMethod(IAsyncResult asyncResult) at System.Web.Mvc.Async.AsyncControllerActionInvoker.<>c__DisplayClass37.<>c__DisplayClass39.<BeginInvokeActionMethodWithFilters>b__33() at System.Web.Mvc.Async.AsyncControllerActionInvoker.<>c__DisplayClass4f.<InvokeActionMethodFilterAsynchronously>b__49()
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