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I'm using Visual Studio 2017 and Entity Framework 6, and for the life of me, I cannot find the EDMX file, Entity Data Tools, Model Browser, or Entity Designer...
Am I losing my mind here? I've created multiple new projects trying to find these UI-based tools for working with the Entity Framework data models and can't seem to get anywhere.
Please help!
I believe I have the correct tools installed in the VS2017 Install:
gotmike
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For anyone looking at this, in my case the answer was that I was using a Code-First implementation of the Entity Framework, which apparently does NOT give you access to the Visual Tools.
So there is no EDMX file in Code-First Entity Framework.
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At the installation of VS2017 you had to go to Individual Components to install those tools, don't think they are installed by default.
- Individual Components
- SDK, Libraries and Components
You can run this install from the VS Installer
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Please also see the current documentation. They state that for current Visual Studio versions, the tools will be included. For previous versions, separate installers (MSI packages, not extensions) are available for download at the Microsoft Download Center. F.e., see Visual Studio Releases > Visual Studio 2013, which will tell you where to find the MSI for Visual Studio 2013.
As in response to gotmike's accepted answer, today there's an 3rd party marketplace extension called Entity Framework Visual Editor, which can be used (I didn't try it myself) to generate a visual representation out of the code first model/POCO classes.
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Also note that the Entity Framework Power Tools always had the feature to preview code first entities in a designer view called 'View Entity Data Model (Read-only)'. This option appears in your context menu when you select a model class derived from DbContext.
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I had similar issue. I reinstalled Entity Framework 6 tools without luck, even reinstalled SQL tools (sorry, forgot exact name). But solution was very simple:
right-click the edmx file-> choose Open with->choose ADO.NET Entity Data Model Designer
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I installed EF 5.0 into the .DAL, now I want to install EF 5.0 into .BLL from Nuget
But the default online Nuget package always comes up with 6.0, which gives error when used together with the 5.0 EF I use in DAL.
Where can I install the 5.0 version of EntityFramework into my Nuget packages??
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View -> Other windows -> Package Manager Console then run
install-package entityframework -version 5.0.0.0
.Add
-project <project.name>
if you want to install it in a specific project.devnulldevnull
here is what I experienced: (before I begin... kudos to devnull for the answer).
I clicked on:
1) View -> Other windows -> Package Manager Console then ran
2) install-package entityframework -version 5.0.0.0.
The uninstall started, but then rolled back, as it detected I already had installed Entity Framework (EF) 6.0.2 ...
>PM> install-package entityframework -version 5.0.0.0
Installing 'EntityFramework 5.0.0'. You are downloading EntityFramework from Microsoft, the license agreement to which is available at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=253898&clcid=0x409. Check the package for additional dependencies, which may come with their own license agreement(s). Your use of the package and dependencies constitutes your acceptance of their license agreements. If you do not accept the license agreement(s), then delete the relevant components from your device. Successfully installed 'EntityFramework 5.0.0'. *****Install failed. Rolling back...***** install-package : Already referencing a newer version of 'EntityFramework'. At line:1 char:1 + install-package entityframework -version 5.0.0.0 + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Install-Package], InvalidOperationException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NuGetCmdletUnhandledException,NuGet.PowerShell.Commands.InstallPackageCommand
So then I uninstalled the Entity Framework 6.0.2 and found it had a dependency that also needed to be removed... then I was finally able to uninstall the Entity Framework 6.0.2 and then add the Entity Framework 5.0.0.0
PM> uninstall-package entityframework -version 6.0.2 uninstall-package : Unable to uninstall 'EntityFramework 6.0.2' because 'AnotherFakeDbSet 3.0.0.0' depends on it.
So then I uninstalled these two and installed Entity Framework 5.0.0.0
PM> uninstall-package AnotherFakeDbSet -version 3.0.0.0
PM> uninstall-package entityframework -version 6.0.2
PM> install-package entityframework -version 5.0.0.0
I like the console... quicker than searching for the packages if you know the version #. And if you haven't checked out 'Powershell' (the basis for the console -- I find it's time well spent - it allows for virtually unlimited automation)
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Older versions of Entity Framework or other similar packages can be installed using Package Manager Console only in earlier versions of Visual Studio (prior to 2015). In Visual Studio 2015 there is an option of manually selecting version before install but in Visual Studio 2010,2012 you need to use package manager console only.
Simple browse to the link Nuget Explorer and click on the specific entity version that you have to install.
You'll see that Studio automatically shows the Package Manager console code.
For example I was working on a project that required Entity Framework 4.1 So here was my code. Entity Framework Package Manager Console Command Snapshot
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