How to add Postgre Provider in Visual Studio 2008 ??????????????

Question

User-507296871 posted

How to add Postgre DataBase Provider in Visual Studio 2008 To be able to add new connections with it`s provider with ADO.NET Entity Framework?????????????

Answer 1

User1508394307 posted

Please check this post.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

User-507296871 posted

I `ve try this steps before  so, i`ve no success for making it

cause , gacutil , i`ve search for it in windows server but i didn`t find it

any another way to solve this problem ?????

Answer 3

User1508394307 posted

http://blogs.iis.net/davcox/archive/2009/07/14/where-is-gacutil-exe.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/wenching/archive/2008/05/22/gacutil-missing-in-windows-server-2008-visual-studio-2008-installation.aspx

Answer 4

User-507296871 posted

smirnov

Thank you for your reply , i`ve done these steps successfully

i execute gacutil to add postgre provider successfully

but , when i `ve open visual studio i didn`t see the npgsql provider to create new connection in ADO Entity Framework or Server Connection from Server Explorer

Answer 5

User1508394307 posted

Please complete all steps from Part 1 (above) and Part 2.

Answer 6

User-507296871 posted

i`ve done steps and there`s error occured , know that , i `ve done added the assembly name to machine.config

this error

error 7001 : The given assembly name or codebase was invalid. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131047)

are there are step to debug machine.config after update it with Npgsql factory provider ?????