Thursday, 14 November 2013

Entity Framework Template not available on VS 2013

Few weeks ago I installed VS 2013 in my laptop. After installing it , without any issue, I ended up having three version of Visual Studio: Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013.

Over the following weeks I opened and built VS 2010 projects with VS 2013 without any problem. This week I started developing the data model of an ASP NET MVC 5 Web Application. My plan was to used the latest and greatest version of Entity Framework, EF 6.0.

To my surprise I couldn't find the template for Entity Framework on my Visual Studio 2013:





  As I didn't perform a custom installation of VS 2013 I knew that there wasn't nothing wrong with the installation process.

After fiddling around a bit with VS 2012 and VS 2013 I noticed that my installation of VS 2012 didn't have  Entity Framework 6.0 installed. So I installed Entity Framework 6.0 for Visual Studio 2012 which you can find by following this link.

Once Entity Framework 6.0 was installed on VS 2012 I run the 'repair' installation option of VS 2013 and voilĂ  the Entity Framework template was back on VS 2013