p. 49

tmack323 · October 22nd, 2010, 01:52 PM

Hello,

Probably an easy question, but I'm definitely new to this, so here goes.

Trying to execute the request shown on p. 49 of the text, where you go to the URL http://localhost:44593/dinners/details/9999. I've double-checked my code against the sample source and the text and can't figure out what's wrong, but I'm getting this error:

"The specified default EntityContainer name 'NerdDinnerEntities' could not be found in the mapping and metadata information.
Parameter name: defaultContainerName"

in this section of code:

Code:

Line 37:         /// Initializes a new NerdDinnerEntities object using the connection string found in the 'NerdDinnerEntities' section of the application configuration file.
Line 38:         /// </summary>
Line 39:         public NerdDinnerEntities() : base("name=NerdDinnerEntities", "NerdDinnerEntities")
Line 40:         {
Line 41:             this.ContextOptions.LazyLoadingEnabled = true;

I get into the constructor for DinnersController, and from there into DinnerRepository, but my constructor for NerdDinnerEntities fails...

My SQL Server database is up and running, I can browse the tables and see the data I've entered.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Tony

flyinhawaiian · October 22nd, 2010, 04:28 PM

I'm guessing you may have moved NerdDinner.edmx from it's original location.

Take a look at your Web.Config. Search for NerdDinnerEntities. You may need to adjust namespace. I created my NerdDinner.edmx in the Models folder. My connection string in Web.Config looks like this:

Code:

    <add name="NerdDinnerEntities" connectionString="metadata=res://*/Models.NerdDinner.csdl|res://*/Models.NerdDinner.ssdl|res://*/Models.NerdDinner.msl;provider=System.Data.SqlClient;provider connection string=&quot;Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|\NerdDinner.mdf;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=True&quot;" providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" />

Also check the namespace in NerdDinner.Designer.cs. It should match.

Code:

namespace NerdDinner.Models

flyinhawaiian · October 22nd, 2010, 04:44 PM

Also note on Page 24, figure 1-46. The Model Namespace is shown as "NerdDinner.Models". (I used this one).

However, VS 2010 actually defaults it to "NerdDinnerModel" (w/o the period and singular).

tmack323 · October 25th, 2010, 04:21 PM

Thanks, cleaning up the .edmx file got me there. I forgot that I had mistakenly gone through the steps to create NerdDinnerEntities twice, and deleted the first one. The one left was named NerdDinnerEntities1 throughout, and I didn't catch every instance where that was used throughout the project. Cleaning up the .cs file was only half of it, I had to clean the .edmx as well.

Tony