Astoria Installation Problem - failing System.Data.Entity

Question

Hola

 

I've been doing some work in 2008-beta under windows XP Professional, and decided to try installing the astoria add-in. The machine in question has the 2005 SQL client.

 

After using the msi I opened the sample "the Simple NorthwindSample from the Program Files\Microsoft Codename Astoria\Samples directory. Once the project is open, hit Ctrl + F5 to start the development web server and launch the sample in an internet browser."

Annoyingly when the projct tries to build it gets 304 errors - all of which are a missing reference to System.Data.Entity. The reference in the website is in error, so obviously an assembly is missing.

 

Am I supposed to have obtained this assembly from somewhere seperately > the documentation made it seem that everything should be supplied by either orcas beta 2 or Astoria?

 

Thanks for any assistance

 

Amundo

Answer 1

Yes, the Astoria CTP depends on the Entity Framework (system.data.entity.dll) being installed (this is indicated in the download page, along with the links to it).

 

You can install the Entity Framework and related tools from the two links below:

 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=47&p=1&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=0fa1413c-cb55-4577-960e-0f3491847f58&u=details.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dF1ADC5D1-A42E-40A6-A68C-A42EE11186F7%26displaylang%3den

 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=47&p=2&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=0fa1413c-cb55-4577-960e-0f3491847f58&u=details.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d09A36081-5ED1-4648-B995-6239D0B77CB5%26displaylang%3den

 

 

After installing those the sample should build and run properly.

 

Pablo Castro

Technical Lead

Microsoft Corporation

http://blogs.msdn.com/pablo

 

 

 

Answer 2

Thanks for the help

 

Ciao