Running SQL Server CE 4 Queries with Visual Studio 2012 and SQL Server Management Studio 2012

Cannot see Oracle Data Provider for .NET in Visual Studio 2012 RC

Edit: Oracle has now released a version (11.2.0.3.20) of Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio that works with Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5. You'll need this version (or higher) of these tools for Visual Studio 2012 Entity Designer support and other Visual Studio 2012 integration. Get it here:...http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/dotnet...

Is MySQL Entity supported in Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 RC?

The connector .NET v6.5.4 available today does not support VS 2012. You can't add a connection to MySQL in the Server Explorer to begin with. ...Support will be included in 6.5.5 as per post: ...MySQL forum...There is apparently some workarounds and 3rd party ways to get this working but personally I will just wait.

Entity Framework 5 and Visual Studio 2012 POCO Classes in Different Project

In Visual Studio 2012, when you add an ADO.NET Entity Data Model (*.edmx), it includes the T4 templates for the context and model classes as sub-items of the EDMX file. For example, if you add MyModel.edmx, it will have 4 sub-items as follows:...MyModel.Context.tt...MyModel.Designer.cs (in C# projects)...MyModel.edmx.diagram...MyModel.tt...MyModel...

MVC4 scaffolding of database-first Entity Framework model in Visual Studio 2012

The edmx code generator in Entity Frameork 5/VS 2012 is buggy. It creates code that is full of compiler errors. I'm guessing it wasn't ready for shipping when vs2012 was released, which is why they set the default code generation flag to none. ...The only question for Microsoft is: when can we expect an update that fixes this?

How to disable code-first feature in EF (MVC4 Visual Studio 2012)

You can use Code First and ensure that your database never gets updated or overwritten when you change your model by setting the database initializer to ...null...:...Database.SetInitializer<MyDbContext>(null); ...It's a static method of the ...Database... class and should be called at the beginning of your application, for example in global.asax o...

How to create a model using .edmx designer in visual studio 2012?

This video is an excellent tutorial:...I am creating a new database...Use Model First to define your model using boxes and lines and then generate a database....Here's the MSDN doc on the subject:...Entity Framework Designer...From this main doc you can drill-down to a lot of topics including the one you want.

Using Entity framework with SQL Server 2012 (local *.mdf database)

Please check the application has access to .mdf file location. If your application resides in "myDocuments" etc type of folders, the application may not have access to it by default.

Entity Framework 6 with SQL Server 2012 gives System.Data.Entity.Core.ProviderIncompatibleException

Try this. Make sure that the project that your ShoppingCartContext is in, is the start up project or when executing the add-migration command include the parameter -startupprojectname ex. add-migration -startupprojectname yourprojectname

SQLite data source is missing in Visual Studio 2012 Entity Framework Connection

I don't know if this actually solves your issue, but I had the same problem and tried pretty much every solution out there....Eventually, after installing the correct packages to support VS2012, I also installed ...Entity Framework 6 Tools for Visual Studio 2012 & 2013...After doing so (and a restart of VS) the connection showed up in the Entity Da...

Entity Framework 6 BulkInsert receiving an invalid column length from the client SQL SERVER 2012 Express

The ...SaveChanges... use a SqlCommand. If the name is longer than the database limit, it will silently be truncated, so no error will be thrown....The ...BulkInsert... use a ...SqlBulkCopy..., if the name is longer than the database limit, an error will be thrown....That explain why you get an error in one case and none in the other case....SqlBul...