Unable to connect to localdb on Visual Studio 2013 using angular-js - angularjs

Question

I'm following this tutorial : http://chsakell.com/2015/08/23/building-single-page-applications-using-web-api-and-angularjs-free-e-book/
And below is the connection string:
<add name="HomeCinema" connectionString="Data Source=(LocalDb)\v11.0;
Initial Catalog=HomeCinema;Integrated Security=SSPI;
MultipleActiveResultSets=true"
providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
When I try to run update-database -verbose on the command-line, I'm getting the following error:
A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to
SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name
is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections.
(provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified)
I'm trying to connect to the LocalDB that comes with Visual Studio 2013.
When I look at the output:
Target database is: 'HomeCinema'
(DataSource: .\SQLEXPRESS, Provider: System.Data.SqlClient, Origin: Convention).
This is the constructor:
public HomeCinemaContext()
: base("HomeCinema")
{
Database.SetInitializer<HomeCinemaContext>(null);
}
Thank you.

Answer 1

I know this is already old, but what I did to run the command successfully was set HomeCinema.Data as the startup project before running the update-database -verbose command. I think this is so that the command will use the app.config in the HomeCinema.Data project where the connection string is specified.
Referring to one of the comments in the article, I think you can also use the following command. This is assuming that you have HomeCinema.Web as your startup project and that your connection string is set in the Web.config.
update-database -verbose -ProjectName "HomeCinema.Data" -StartupProjectName "HomeCinema.Web" -ConnectionStringName "HomeCinema"