Wondering if anyone else is running into an issue with Entity Framework throwing an error when reading data from a local SQL Express instance that’s running on an m1 mac and Parallels?

I get the following error

“Unable to cast object of type ‘System.Byte[]’ to type ‘System.String’.”

The db field datatypes are all nvarchar, int, or bit. When I change my connection string to our remote sql server, there are no issues. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

I’m following the recent KB article provided by Parallels to use a local SQL Express instance. I copied the database from our remote sql server to local for development. Article here -> https://kb.parallels.com/129699/