'Code First From Database' Template not showing in Visual Studio Entity Data Model Wizard

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kurasa picture kurasa · Mar 25, 2014 · Viewed 22.5k times · Source

according to Microsft in this article is should see an option 'Code First From Database' when adding a new item to the project under 'ADO.NET Entity Data Model' in step 3.

I see the following only enter image description here

I have installed EF 6.1 using nuget, I am using Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate..What am i missing?

Answer

kurasa picture kurasa · Mar 25, 2014

It turns out that to enable the "Code First From Database" template, you need to download and install the EF Tools.

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