using connectionString for ado.net

Hi,

I am stuck. I have spent nearly a day to solve but to no avail. 

PROBLEM: Connecting to production database using entity framework.

I connect fine on development. 

<add name="DefaultConnectionString" connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=MONDO;Integrated Security=True" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
    
<add name="MONDOEntities" connectionString="metadata=res://*;provider=System.Data.SqlClient;provider connection string=&quot;Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=MONDO;Integrated Security=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=True&quot;" providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" />
 

Moving to production, I used (from the production web.config file) the existing "DefaultConnectionString" parameters (ID and Password) to edit the MONDOEntities connectionString. (can I do this?) Also, I expanded the metadata in MONDOEntities to include .csdl, .ssdl, .msl and I prefixed it with (guessing, again, can I do this?) MONDO. Bold parts are changes from dev web.config to production web.config. *Note, the connectionStrings below were not created by Visual Studio, I just changed the bolded info myself to try and make it work on the production side. 

<add connectionString="Data Source=MPOC\SQLEXPRESS;Database=Mondo;User ID=xxx;Password=xxxxx;" name="DefaultConnectionString" />

<add name="MONDOEntities" connectionString="metadata=res://*/MONDO.csdl|res://*/MONDO.ssdl|res://*/MONDO.msl;provider=System.Data.SqlClient;provider connection string=&quot;Data Source=MPOC\SQLEXPRESS;persist security info=True;Database=Mondo;User ID=xxx;Password=xxxxx;MultipleActiveResultSets=True;App=EntityFramework&quot;" providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" />
    

The error message I get is:

Unable to load the specified metadata resource.

Line 62:         /// Initializes a new MONDOEntities object using the connection string found in the 'MONDOEntities' section of the application configuration file.
Line 63:         /// </summary>
Line 64: public MONDOEntities() : 

QUESTION: Can I simply modify the connectionStrings manually or does it need to run through a compilation process? It is a website project so it compiles, on the fly, the first time after I upload to production. It does not get precompiled on my local dev computer. 

I guess, bottom line, how do I set up a proper connectionString for an entity connection for a database in production?