The entity type <type> is not part of the model for the current context

For me the issue was that I had not included the Entity Class within my db set inside the context for entity framework.

public DbSet<ModelName> ModelName { get; set; }

Apparently, this error is very generic, it could have a number of reasons. In my case, it was the following: The connection string (in Web.config) generated by the .edmx was invalid. After almost a day of trying everything, I changed the connection string from the EF string to an ADO.NET string. This solved my issue.

For example, the EF string looks something like this:

<connectionStrings> 
  <add name="BlogContext"  
    connectionString="metadata=res://*/BloggingModel.csdl| 
                               res://*/BloggingModel.ssdl| 
                               res://*/BloggingModel.msl; 
                               provider=System.Data.SqlClient 
                               provider connection string= 
                               &quot;data source=(localdb)\v11.0; 
                               initial catalog=Blogging;
                               integrated security=True; 
                               multipleactiveresultsets=True;&quot;" 
     providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" /> 
</connectionStrings>

And the ADO.NET string looks like this:

<connectionStrings>
  <add name="BlogContext"  
        providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"  
        connectionString="Server=.\SQLEXPRESS;Database=Blogging;
        Integrated Security=True;"/> 
</connectionStrings>

Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/nl-nl/data/jj556606.aspx

Put this in your custom DbContext class:

protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{
    modelBuilder.Entity<Estate>().ToTable("Estate");
}

If your tables are not created on startup, this is why. You need to tell the DbContext about them in the OnModelCreating method override.

You can either do custom per-entity mappings here, or separate them out into separate EntityTypeConfiguration<T> classes.