Referencing EF Resources in a Specific Assembly
This post and sample application demonstrate a possible issue with the way that Entity Framework loads the embedded metadata resources (csdl, msl, ssdl) for the entity model. In my application, all assemblies in some specific directory are discovered and loaded at runtime. Think of it as a sort of plugin model. The application allows for multiple versions of the same assembly to be loaded, and each dll follows the [AssemblyName].[Version].dll naming scheme....