title: The configuration section 'entityFramework' cannot be read because it is missing a section declaration
body: <p>I've been working on this project for quite a while. But now it just crashed after I added Identity. The error is as according:</p>
  
  <p><code>The configuration section 'entityFramework' cannot be read because it is missing a section declaration</code></p>
  
  <p>It's some IIS error I think, because that's what the page is saying.</p>
  
  <p>My web.config file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;!--
    For more information on how to configure your ASP.NET application, please visit
    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=169433
    --&gt;
  &lt;configuration&gt;
    &lt;system.web&gt;
      &lt;compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.5.2" /&gt;
      &lt;httpRuntime targetFramework="4.5.2" /&gt;
    &lt;/system.web&gt;
    &lt;connectionStrings&gt;
      &lt;add name="DefaultConnection" connectionString="Data Source=(LocalDb)\MSSQLLocalDB;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|\WebFormsIdentity.mdf;Initial Catalog=WebFormsIdentity;Integrated Security=True" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" /&gt;
    &lt;/connectionStrings&gt;
    &lt;system.codedom&gt;
      &lt;compilers&gt;
        &lt;compiler language="c#;cs;csharp" extension=".cs" type="Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.CSharpCodeProvider, Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" warningLevel="4" compilerOptions="/langversion:6 /nowarn:1659;1699;1701" /&gt;
        &lt;compiler language="vb;vbs;visualbasic;vbscript" extension=".vb" type="Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.VBCodeProvider, Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" warningLevel="4" compilerOptions="/langversion:14 /nowarn:41008 /define:_MYTYPE=\&amp;quot;Web\&amp;quot; /optionInfer+" /&gt;
      &lt;/compilers&gt;
    &lt;/system.codedom&gt;
    &lt;entityFramework&gt;
      &lt;defaultConnectionFactory type="System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure.LocalDbConnectionFactory, EntityFramework"&gt;
        &lt;parameters&gt;
          &lt;parameter value="v12.0" /&gt;
        &lt;/parameters&gt;
      &lt;/defaultConnectionFactory&gt;
      &lt;providers&gt;
        &lt;provider invariantName="System.Data.SqlClient" type="System.Data.Entity.SqlServer.SqlProviderServices, EntityFramework.SqlServer" /&gt;
      &lt;/providers&gt;
    &lt;/entityFramework&gt;
    &lt;runtime&gt;
      &lt;assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1"&gt;
        &lt;dependentAssembly&gt;
          &lt;assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.Owin" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" culture="neutral" /&gt;
          &lt;bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-3.0.1.0" newVersion="3.0.1.0" /&gt;
        &lt;/dependentAssembly&gt;
      &lt;/assemblyBinding&gt;
    &lt;/runtime&gt;
  &lt;/configuration&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I hope someone can help me resolving this problem.. Thanks in advance!</p>