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Saturday, March 1, 2014

The underlying provider failed on open in entity framework mvc



In this post we will discuss about how to resolve error: The underlying provider failed on open in entity framework mvc. Also you can check out my previous posts on:

- File upload and thumbnail creation in Asp.Net

- Difference between web application and web site in Asp.Net

- The underlying provider failed on Open error in Asp.Net Entity framework

- Configuration Error in asp.net

Solution:

1. Open the services console Run -> services.msc

2. Find the service Distributed Transaction Coordinator

3. Make sure that this service is started.

4. If the service is not started, right click on the service and select Start