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GlennSills
GlennSills

Reputation: 4177

LINQPad 4 unable to find EntityFramework

I'm trying to use LINQPad 4 (the latest beta) with Entity Framework POCO classes. I take the normal path of creating a new connection and then selecting "Entity Framework DbContext POCO(4.1) and then selecting my he assembly holding my classes. When I do so I get the following message

"Could not load file or assembly EntityFramework. Version=4.1.O.O, Culture= neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089 or one of its dependencies.

The system cannot find the file specified."

I'm able to load the assembly from my application just fine. What gives? It seems a bit different from the previous problem like this reported in the CTP.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1915

Answers (1)

Jonathan Levison
Jonathan Levison

Reputation: 2617

I had the same problem today, this is how I solved it:

Apparently the LINQPad 4.36.3 requires in some way Entity Framework 4.2 :/
It was released last week: ADO.NET blog

What I did is:

  1. Installed EF4.2 via NuGet
  2. Rebuilt the project
  3. Copied all my project .dll files to LINQPad folder (including the 4.2 EF.dll)
  4. I read here that I need to add something to the LINQPad.exe.config file but it was already there..
    [At this point I tried removing that assembly redirect and ran it against my 4.1 dll, did not work, was still looking for 4.2]
  5. Closed VS and uninstalled EF4.1

Thats it, after that both my project is now running on 4.2 and LINQPad works as well.

Upvotes: 7

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