Tuesday, February 26, 2008

ADO NET Entity Framework Beta 3 Installation Troubleshooting

It is so frustrating to spend a whole day trying to work with a tool and not getting there because you don't know why, but apparently you are installing it all wrong...

ADO .NET EF Beta 3 has 2 patches you need to install in order to be able to use it: Beta 3 patch and EF Tools patch. Or so they say... You also need to install a VS 2008 Patch. I found this tip
here. And installed the VS 2008 patch, then the Beta 3 release and then the Tools. No luck. The ADO NET Entity Data Model Item Template was not showing up in the Add New Item screen of VS 2008. But the VS 2008 command line recognised the edmgen command. Bugger...

After a day and a thousand google searches I found the answer
here. You have to install the VS 2008 patch AFTER the Beta 3 and BEFORE the Tools.

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