Missing ADO.NET Entity Framework template after installing SP1

Question

After installing SP1 and making sure my project is set to use the 3.5 framework I don’t see the ADO.NET Entity Framework template when trying to add a new item to the project.  As a side note I also have Visual Studio Express on the same machine and can see it list there, but I can not see in Visual Studio Professional.   Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Hi _Roland,

Do you mean ADO.NET Entity Data Model template? Which edition of Visual Studio are you running now?

Can you find the following files on disk:
Item templates
%programfiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\CSharp\Data\1033\AdoNetEntityDataModelCSharp.zip
%programfiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\VisualBasic\Data\1033\AdoNetEntityDataModelVB.zip
%programfiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\Web\CSharp\1033\AdoNetEntityDataModelCSharp_ASPNET.zip
%programfiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\Web\VisualBasic\1033\AdoNetEntityDataModelVB_ASPNET.zip

If these files can be found, please try running devenv.exe /InstallVSTemplates.
Visual Studio uses a cache on disk of all the installed project/item templates, to rebuild the cache, please run devenv.exe /InstallVSTemplates (in Start > Run or "Visual Studio 2005/2008 Command Prompt")

Let me know if it works.

Thanks

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Answer 2

Hi, can you upload this files, please?.
I have the same problem than _Roland but I don't have them

Thanks.

Answer 3

Hi Juan32,

Could you please try opening a new thread in this forum so that we can focus on your issue? Please clarify your issue more in your new thread. Which edition of Visual Studio are you running now? What's your OS? I'm willing to help you. :)

Thank you for your understanding.

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

I uninstalled Visual Studio and reinstalled Visual Studio and reapplied VSSp1 and after that the ADO.NET Entity Framework template was there.

 

As a side note I was getting Package 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Xaml' has failed to load properly when I tried to open a xaml window. That error is also gone now as well.

 

Thanks

Answer 6

Hi YiChun,

I have the same problem with (english) VS2008 (on german WinXP). I installed the Full Package of .NET FW SP-1/EN.
I have those template files, I also tried devenv.exe /InstallVSTTemplates, but ADO.NET EF template is still not available, when I try to add such an new item to my project..

Anything else I can check or try?

Thanks,
Stefan

Answer 7

Hi,

ehem... maybe I can excuse myself by stating that this was my first EF try (read an "How-To" article from Beth Massi). Of couse when you want to use ADO.NET EF, then your project should be a .NET FW 3.5 project...

Sorry to bother,
Stefan

Answer 8

Stefan,
 

 was your problem solved....I am facing the same problem............


Thanks
Bharath Reddy VasiReddy

Answer 9

Yes it fixed my problem. I hope it will fix yours. Good luck!