EF6, refreshing large DB-first entity model taking forever in VS 2015 on Windows 10, compared to VS 2015 on Windows 8.1

Entity Framework - CreateQuery VS ExecuteFunction VS ExecuteStoreQuery VS ExecuteStoreCommand

What are the differences between following-...CreateQuery()  ExecuteFunction(), ExecuteStoreQuery() and ExecuteStoreCommand() ...As per my knowledge CreateQuery is used for Entity SQL & rest of the methods are used for sql function or stored procedure defined in DB....As per ObjectContext class meta data they are as follow:...CreateQuery():Create...

Entities VS Domain Models VS View Models

There are hundreds of similar questions on this topic. But I am still confused and I would like to get experts advise on this....We are developing an application using ASP.NET MVC 4 and EF5 and ours is DB first approach....We have Data layer in a separate project which is a class library and holds all the Entities defined in it. And then Business L...

Entity vs Model vs View Model

Different people understand these terms a bit differently, but this is how I understand it:...Entity - object that has an identity (ID), usually comes from a database. Pretty simple class....Model - any business object, this is a kinda broad term. It can be an entity, some custom class you've created in your project etc.. It's pretty much everythin...

EF6 migrations stopped working on VS 2015 RC

Downgraded the Entity Framework version from 6.1.3 to EF 6.1.2 and now it works....https://github.com/aspnet/EntityFramework/issues/1950

Unable to update EntityFramework models from MySQL database in Visual Studio 2015 RC

Could you please update your VS 2015 from RC to RTM, update the nuget packages by running the following command:...update-package...This will get all latest stable nuget package in VS 2015....Let me know if this fix your issue.

ADO.NET Entity Data Model missing Visual Studio 2015 community

May sound stupid, but since I got caught with this, it might be someone else's issue too......In VS 2015, there are 2 project templates called Class Library... one being in Windows and one in the Web and having (package) suffix. Apparently, besides misleading name they have nothing to do with each other and the second one clearly is not made to sup...

Visual Studio 2015 EDMX model browser and diagram is missing

I have recently updated to Visual Studio 2015. Opened up my solution and works. Till I decided to add in an entity to my edmx. So I double-clicked on the edmx file to open the diagram like it should or maybe the model browser at least but it only opens an XML page. I checked any missed installation from the setup but didn't find anything about enti...

Unable to Enable EF6 Migrations in Visual Studio 2015 Web API project

In my VS2015 ASP.NET 5 Web API project I installed EF6.1.3 but the ...enable-migrations... command in Package Manage console gives me following error: ...The term 'enable-migrations' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.... None of the ...suggestions here... work for me - giving me still the same err...

visual studio 2015: setup EF6 with oracle

I am trying to create Entity framework 6 model for an Oracle Database....Install ...Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.EntityFramework... from nuget...https://www.nuget.org/packages/Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.EntityFramework/ ...Then install ...Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2015...:...http://download.oracle.com/otn/other/ole-oo4o/ODTforVS2015_121025...

Entity Framework 6 vs Dapper vs stored procedure vs request in SQL Server

I have EF with LINQ with SQL Server in my project a long time....And I was searching for a way to improve a performance of my requests to DB. And I read a lot of about Dapper and Procedures, that it's faster than EF. I added Dapper to project, I added procedure.... but my tests showed strange results. EF and Dapper and stored procedures have almost...