title: Azure WebJob no longer picking up Entity Framework connection string setting in portal
body: <p>I've had an Azure WebJob running for at least two years without any problems. The app.config contains the following...</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;connectionStrings&gt;
      &lt;add name="UniversalModelEntities" connectionString="dummy - the actual connection string is specified in the portal but for some reason we need this element here" providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" /&gt;  
  &lt;/connectionStrings&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And in the portal's <em>Application Settings</em> I have...</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/KIOER.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/KIOER.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>This has run without any problems... until this morning when I found the error</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>The connection string 'UniversalModelEntities' in the application's configuration file does not contain the required providerName attribute."</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Everything I've found regarding Entity Framework connection strings in the Azure portal says that I should set that drop-down to <code>Custom</code>.</p>
  
  <p>So what's the problem?</p>
  
  <p>Furthermore, I've found that even if declare the full connection string in the app.config, I still get the same error message, which suggests that the problem lies in the portal's setting.</p>