I installed VS 2012 beta version and then installed Entity framework following this tutorial and it worked fine.
VS 2012 beta expired so i got VS 2012 Express. I tried to follow the same tutorial but now i don't have "Entity Framework Reverse Engineer Code First" in right-click project menu.
Is it a limitation in Visual Studio 2012 Express?
EF Power Tools are not available on Express SKU - you need at least Pro version. See this thread for more detailed answer: How to install EFPowerTool Beta on the right version of VS on my PC
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After upgrading EF1.1 to EF2.0 now I'm not able to do migrations.
Error: Startup project 'QilinSystem.Store.Data.csproj' targets
framework '.NETStandard'. This framework is not intended for execution
and may fail to resolve runtime dependencies. If so, specify a
different project using the --s tartup-project option and try again.
How to solve this issue?
EF Core 2.0 Preview 1 requires Visual Studio 15.3 Preview, so you have to install it.
Announcing EF Core 2.0 Preview 1:
Accessing .NET Core tooling in Visual Studio requires Visual Studio
2017 15.3 Preview, Visual Studio for Mac or Visual Studio Code. More
information about this and download links can be found in the .NET
Core 2.0 Preview 1 announcement.
Visual Studio Preview FAQ:
Preview installs next to your stable Visual Studio IDE, allowing you
to use either independently.
I have installed EntityFramework 6.01 and have added a reference to my project. I closed Visual Studio 2012 and I then installed EF Power Tools Beta 4.
I re-opened Visual Studio 2012 and right-clicked my project containing dbContext. No entry appears in the context menu for Entity Framework. No error messages occurred during installation.
Are there additional pre-requisites to using EF Power Tools?
I think I have discovered the solution. My company uses VB.net as the standard development language. As a test, I started a C# project. Entity Framework Power Tools are fully present in the C# project. It appears that Entity Framework Power Tools are not yet available in VB.net projects.
Try right clicking on the project. I just looked at the beta 4 description and it does not reference EF 6. But the reverse engineer classes from database should show up with a right click on the project, indicating that at least the power tools installed correctly. These are the only comparability issues I could find:
Generate Views won’t work with prerelease versions of EF6.
It will, however, work with the RTM version when it’s released.
View Entity Data Model won’t work with EF6 on Visual Studio 2010.
Beta 4 updates the Power Tools to work with Entity Framework 6 and Visual Studio 2013. The following issues have also been fixed in this release.
Power Tools don't work when project is under a solution folder
Power Tools stop working when EF.dll is loaded into VS
Specific info found on the ado.net blog on msdn
I can't seem to get EF Power Tools to install with VS2012 Express for Web. Is it only compatible with Standard or Ultimate Editions of VS?
Yes it is not compatible with Express edition because Express editions don't allow installing plugins.
The ADO.NET blog at
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2012/04/09/ef-power-tools-beta-2-available.aspx
says:
Compatibility
The Power Tools are compatible with Visual Studio 2010 and Entity Framework 4.2 or later.
You can also install the Power Tools on Visual Studio 11 Beta, but you may receive the error "A constructible type deriving from DbContext could not be found in the selected file." This is caused by a bug in the Visual Studio 11 unit test tools where an older version of EntityFramework.dll is being loaded. We are working closely with that team to resolve the issue. As a workaround, you can delete the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0_Config\BindingPaths{BFC24BF4-B994-4757-BCDC-1D5D2768BF29} registry key. Be aware, however, that this will cause the Unit Test commands to stop working. Thank you, early adopters, for your superhuman patience with prerelease software.
My question is:
Does anybody know if this issue is resolved on VS2012 Professional RC? I have a pretty stable installation and don't want to mess up with it.
Yes, it is fixed in Visual Studio 2012 RC.
Now that ASP.NET MVC 2 is out, I tried to install it on my development machine, which already has Visual Studio 2010 RC installed and I got this error message during installation
Component Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2 has failed to install with the following error message:
"A different version of ASP.NET MVC 2 is already installed on your system. Please uninstall this version before proceeding with this install."
Sure enough, the MVC 2 release notes state:
Note Because Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 RC share a component of ASP.NET MVC 2, installing the ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM release on a computer where Visual Studio 2010 RC is also installed is not supported.
So my question is, though officially unsupported, if I uninstall VS 2010 RC, install MVC 2 then re-install VS 2010 RC, might this work? And would I then be able to target MVC 2 in VS2010?
See http://haacked.com/archive/2010/02/10/installing-asp-net-mvc-2-rc-2-on-visual-studio.aspx. This is unsupported, but the same general steps should work.