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vitaly-t
vitaly-t

Reputation: 25940

How to create EDMX from CSDL+SSDL+MSL files?

I am using EdmGen.exe to automatically generate files:

How can I generate an EDMX file from all that, so I can include it into my Visual Studio project?

I'm trying to automate EDMX update in such a way that would not require use of Visual Studio IDE, i.e. completely from command line.

Reasons

My development team needs to start using a huge Oracle database, which was designed long ago, and undergoes small, non-frequent changes. ODP Entity Framework from Oracle seems to be a very good platform for the job, but their Visual Studio Integration Tools comes as a disaster, which we are trying to avoid like a plague. I was asked to script automatic EF model generation completely from command line. Generating a new EDMX from CSDL+SSDL+MSL files is where I got stuck.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1547

Answers (1)

Bigsby
Bigsby

Reputation: 952

What you want is far out of left field for EF. I'm pretty sure you're going to have to write some custom tooling as the EDMX generation isn't something I see Visual Studio calling into making me think it's part of the IDE itself.

A couple resources I found on this:

Looking at an EDMX I have locally, it's basically just a logical mashup of those files you already have generated so you should be able to figure out and write a generator without too much hassle. Granted, it'll be tedious as hell.

Bottom line, I just don't think there's a tool to do this for you given the typical EF development strategies of code-first or database-first approaches. The prescribed approached here would be code-first but I totally get why you don't want to recreate them.

That said, unless you absolutely need an EDMX for some reason (visualization, or something), I would actually just template out your models and do a pseudo "code first" approach and not even worry about the EDMX tool chain.

Best of luck.

Upvotes: 1

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