So I installed Entity Framework June CTP day before and all was fine until I went to add POCO's to the EF, that's when I got this error
So I thought to myself 'It must have been the CTP that's causing this, so I went and unloaded it. I restarted Visual Studio and was greeted with this message:
I hit No and Visual Studio finished loading my project. When I once again tried to add the POCO's I was greeted with this error:
So does anyone know what's going on and how I can resolve this issue? I know Entity Framework 4.2 has new items but for the time being I prefer the POCO way of doing things.
EF CTP 2011 is very first preview of EF 4.2. It also shows only subset of features expected in EF 4.2. First of all it is not for developing production code and it should not be installed on the machine where you write a production EF code.
It is expected that CTP can contain bugs - that is why CTPs are published - to collect feedback and find bugs. It is not clear what you actually did to get the error but if you have a technical problem with CTP ask on EF pre-release forum for help.
Why not simply remove EF 4.2 ? Removal guide here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2011/06/30/announcing-the-microsoft-entity-framework-june-2011-ctp.aspx
I had exactly same problem and resolved it by uninstalling "SQL Server Tools for Data Framework June 2011 CTP" - download it at http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26660, run and select the Remove option.
After that I was able to recover the Entity Framework tools to SP1 state using the steps in Uninstall section described at
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2011/06/30/announcing-the-microsoft-entity-framework-june-2011-ctp.aspx.
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I get the following error trying to add a new entity model. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot or fix this?
An error occurred loading the entity data model tools package. failed
to load entity data model tools package. the result is -2147024894
Visual Studio 2015 Update 1
v14.0.24720.00
Entity Framework Nuget Package
v6.1.3
Microsoft .net 4.6.0
UPDATE
I tried installing this, it worked once and then after rebooting a couple days later no longer fixed the issue. It's back:
I was able to fix this by downloading the entity framework 6.x t4 templates and installing them from this: https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/18a7db90-6705-4d19-9dd1-0a6c23d0751f?SRC=VSIDE
I was able to get around this error by changing the framework from version 4.x to 4.5 on my project and then restarting visual studio. It took some tinkering but it appears this occurs because the Visual Studio 2015 Entity Model Package wizard is dependent on something in the 4.5 framework.
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 wanted to follow up on a post from last year ("EF5 , Widows Forms , Dragging a chield entity from project datasource into a GridView creates only 2 columns").
I believe the problem described with EF5 is still true and the solution found (use EF4) continues to be the only reasonable answer.
Before I upgrade to VS2012, I wanted to check whether anyone knows if there is any problem using EF4 in VS 2012.
Anyone with experience on this?
VS2012 requires .NET Framework 4.5 which is an in-place update. This means that once you install the .NET Framework 4.5 it will be always used when running .NET Framework 4 or .NET Framework 4.5 apps. This also means that you will be running EF5 even if you target .NET Framework 4 in VS (targeting is only a design time thing which prevents from using APIs that were not available in the targeted .NET Framework version while at runtime the app will use the version installed on the box).
With regards to the problem you are reporting - take a look at this bug report on the EF codeplex site as it apparently contains a solution to the problem
I'm getting a strange error while using EF 5 using a Database First approach on the designer. The error is saying 'value cannot be null parameter name: font'. I also get a big red X over the design area. I'm not exactly sure how the designer generated this error, and to this point, I've only used the designer to create my edmx.
Thoughts? This is with VS 2012 RTM version.
I was able to resolve the same error by simply restarting Visual Studio.
I was able to fix this by repairing the Entity Framework Designer for Visual Studio 2012 (Control Panel -> Uninstall a program etc..)
I just had exactly the same problem (several years later) after I started using Entity Framework designer right after installing it. (using VS2019, .NET Framework 4.7.2, and Entity Framework 6)
I the issue disappeared, before I could document it:
Restarting Visual Studio only one time was not enough; I did it few times.
I'm not sure why, but it is likely because that some VS components did not unload right away when I was just restarting it.
I guest it would have work right away by restarting the computer, to ensure everything is unloaded from memory.
Thanks to SausageFingers for the clue.
I installed a lot of ado.net entity framework versions and tools. one of them was this one: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=26660
Now there are a lot of problems while trying to add a new entity data model, and also can't use any code generation tools such as dbcontext code generator.
What I want to know is how to remove all of these ef versions and reset my Visual studio 10.
Note, I repaired my vs, and reinstalled the SP1 but with no hope, the same errors are there.
here are 2 screen shots that may let you help me better:
installed items in my VS:
error appear after trying to add a new entity data model:
The uninstallation procedure of EF June 2011 CTP is described in this article. As you see in your linked download page there is red text in instructions describing issues with CTP. That CTP should have never been installed on your main development (production) machine because it breaks existing VS functionalities. The instructions directly says that it should be installed in non-production environment (for example virtual machine).