Entity Framework - The underlying provider failed on ConnectionString

While using the Entity Framework I have split it out to it's own project: - RivWorks.Model - Contains Entity Model - RivWorks.Controller - Uses the Entity Model and contains the biz rules - RivWorks.View.Web - The web site - RivWorks.View.Services - WCF project Everything in the web site is working fine. I am able to call into the Controller and get a valid Model back. When I try the same thing from the Web.Service I am getting this error: ERROR: The underlying provider failed on ConnectionString. STACK TRACE: at System.Data.EntityClient.EntityConnection.ChangeConnectionString(String newConnectionString) at System.Data.EntityClient.EntityConnection..ctor(String connectionString) at System.Data.Objects.ObjectContext.CreateEntityConnection(String connectionString) at System.Data.Objects.ObjectContext..ctor(String connectionString, String defaultContainerName) at RivWorks.Model.Entities.RivFeedsEntities1..ctor(String connectionString) at RivWorks.Model.FeedStoreReadOnly..ctor(String connectionString) at RivWorks.Controller.ProductManager.LookupProduct(String productID, String sku, String urlRef, String env, String logPath) I am a bit confused as to why and digging through the error logs I finally figured out the connection strings were not being read from the Web Site's config file. So, I added some code to catch that and, for now, hard coded the values in. Like: ``` public dataObjects.NegotiateSetup LookupProduct(string productID, string sku, string urlRef, string env, string logPath) { string feedConnString = ""; string rivConnString = ""; log.InitializeLogFile(logPath); dataObjects.NegotiateSetup resultSet = new dataObjects.NegotiateSetup(); try { feedConnString = AppSettings.FeedAutosEntities_connString; } catch { feedConnString = @"metadata=res://*/Entities.FeedEntities.csdl|res://*/Entities.FeedEntities.ssdl|res://*/Entities.FeedEntities.msl;provider=System.Data.SqlClient;provider connection string='Data Source=***.***.***.***;Initial Catalog=******;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=******;Password="******";MultipleActiveResultSets=True'"; } try { rivConnString = AppSettings.RivWorkEntities_connString; } catch { rivConnString = @"metadata=res://*/Entities.RivEntities.csdl|res://*/Entities.RivEntities.ssdl|res://*/Entities.RivEntities.msl;provider=System.Data.SqlClient;provider connection string='Data Source=******;Initial Catalog=******_Dev;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=******;Password="******";MultipleActiveResultSets=True'"; } try { using (RivFeedsEntities1 _dbFeed = new FeedStoreReadOnly(feedConnString).ReadOnlyEntities()) { using (RivEntities _dbRiv = new RivWorksStore(rivConnString).NegotiationEntities()) { ``` But, alas, it is still giving me the above error! Any ideas why?