EF Power Tools Beta 3 Available

re: EF Power Tools Beta 3 Available

Rowan Miller — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:51:10 GMT

@George J. Capnias - It's an interesting idea, I'm not sure how many folks would want to use it (I suspect most people would want to just hand code classes for the entities they want to have buddy classes for). Feel free to add a feature request on out CodePlex site - entityframework.codeplex.com/.../Create. It's not something we'd look at in EF6 but if we saw significant demand for it we could consider it in the future.

re: EF Power Tools Beta 3 Available

George J. Capnias — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:44:44 GMT

@Rowan Miller In order to control validation, display names, etc., one has take advantage of DataAnnotations. For each class/entity, a new partial class has to be created, with an embedded "metaclass".

The whole process could be done by right-clicking on a code file containing a derived DbContext class, or on an Entity Data Model (*.edmx) file, to exist an option to create metadata classes...

re: EF Power Tools Beta 3 Available

Rowan Miller — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:33:52 GMT

@George J. Capnias - Can you expand on what you mean by 'metadata classes'?

re: EF Power Tools Beta 3 Available

George J. Capnias — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:35:48 GMT

I think it would be a nice idea, on right-clicking on a code file containing a derived DbContext class, or on an Entity Data Model (*.edmx) file, to exist an option to create metadata classes...

re: EF Power Tools Beta 3 Available

Rowan Miller — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:55:59 GMT

@Uli - There is information about using a T4 template to auto generate views here - blog.3d-logic.com/.../entity-framework-6-and-pre-generated-views.

re: EF Power Tools Beta 3 Available

Uli — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 01:41:14 GMT

Is there a way to auto-generate the pre-compiled views since this feature is really amazing. Nevertheless, repeating this step by hand is really annoying!

re: EF Power Tools Beta 3 Available

Rowan Miller — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:17:10 GMT

@Matheus Vieira - Thanks, we've looked at the issue and we're going to try and fix it in EF6.

re: EF Power Tools Beta 3 Available

Rowan Miller — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:16:18 GMT

@Mehran - If you can provide a project that reproduces the issue, it would be great if you could open an issue on our CodePlex site and attach it - entityframework.codeplex.com/.../Create

re: EF Power Tools Beta 3 Available

Rowan Miller — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:15:03 GMT

@beh - In EF6 Alpha 2 you want to use DbFunctions, it looks like you are still using the EntityFunctions type from System.Data.Entity.dll in the .NET Framework (I would recommend removing this reference). Here is more info on moving to EF6 - entityframework.codeplex.com/wikipage

BTW we agree the rename of EntityFunctions => DbFunctions is confusing and we are considering renaming it back - entityframework.codeplex.com/.../832

re: EF Power Tools Beta 3 Available

Matheus Vieira — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:13:21 GMT

For the wrong key mapping, i've created the issue: entityframework.codeplex.com/.../868