Visual Studio 2012 does not have an Entity Framework menu

Question

My copy of Visual Studio 2012 does not have an Entity Framework menu.

How can I get it?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/zh-cn/data/jj200620

I am using Visual Studio 2012 Update 2.

Answer 1

There are two things to install if you are using an entity framework:

• Entity Framework in Package Manager Console

PM> Install-Package EntityFramework

or Install-package EntityFramework -pre if after EF6 in the current state

• Powertools Entity Framework

  http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/72a60b14-1581-4b9b-89f2-846072eff19d

Powertools offer some useful options that appear in this context menu.

Remember to right-click in the file containing DBContext to get the correct behavior.

Answer 2

You can install it from the Entity Framework Infrastructure Tools . This add-on is for Visual Studio.