Metadata file not found - Data.Entity.Model

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ignacy130 picture ignacy130 · Oct 29, 2013 · Viewed 21.2k times · Source

Anyone having similar problem, while creating webservices?

Compiling transformation: Metadata file 'D:\Program Files\VS2013\Common7\Tools..\IDE\Microsoft.Data.Entity.Design.dll' could not be found D:\PROJEKTY\apki\ws2\WS\WS\DataModel.tt

error screenshot

I tried adding data model again, restarting VS, cleaning and building solution, creating new project, deleting and adding reference, installing the newest version. I think that any solution found on internet does not work for me.

Any suggestions? I think of pasting file into this directory, but can't think what may be there.

Answer

modeeb picture modeeb · Dec 17, 2013

Based on

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\Entity Framework Tools\Templates\Includes\EF6.Utility.CS.ttinclude

, the code generator is looking for the missing DLLs in the following locations:

<#@ assembly name="%VS120COMNTOOLS%..\IDE\EntityFramework.dll" #>
<#@ assembly name="%VS120COMNTOOLS%..\IDE\Microsoft.Data.Entity.Design.dll" #>

I discovered that the environment variable %VS120COMNTOOLS% is not compatible with the correct installation path of visual studio, so I changed it from Advanced system properties and it worked

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