Missing ADO.NET entity data model template from vi

Question

Missing ADO.NET entity data model template from Visual Studio 2012 Professional. I don't even have "Data" category from Visual Studio template category.

I modified the Visual Studio 2012 installation, and selected all the available packages to install. But even then no luck.

Answer 1

Firstly you can add ClassLibrary in your Solution. Then, Add New Item to ClassLibrary and you can add Data>ADO.NET Entity Data Model

Answer 2

Close Visual Studio and then install "Entity Framework Tools for Visual Studio" from this location:

► [Visual Studio Disk or installer folder]\packages\EFTools\EFTools.msi"

I do it and I got the result.

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You can also download this tool from here.

Answer 3

1. Press right click on an existing project

2. select "add" -> "New Item..."

3. Under "data" node you can select the "ADO.NET Entity Data Model"

Here I found the solution

Answer 4

I found the EFTools.msi file in my packages folder, and run it then choose uninstall then run it again and choose install. After this reinstall, the template appeared.

Answer 5

I did a search in C:\ProgramData\Package Cache for "eftools.msi"

There were three versions (from different beta/RCs I guess)

I picked the most recent and installed it.

This solved the problem for me.