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Doug Kimzey
Doug Kimzey

Reputation: 1174

Entity Framework Power Tools does not appear in VS 2012

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?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1935

Answers (2)

Doug Kimzey
Doug Kimzey

Reputation: 1174

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.

Upvotes: 1

Mike Beeler
Mike Beeler

Reputation: 4101

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

Upvotes: 0

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