Data sources toolbox for VS2012 does not display my entity model

Question

After adding an entity model either from the datasources toolbox itself or by adding it => \"add\" => \"new item\" it does not show up in the datasources toolbox and therefor i

Answer 1

While working on a project I recently faced the same problem. It took me about two days of extensive research but I think I've finally found it:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/jj556581

At least for me it solved the problem. Please let me know if it helped you..

Answer 2

Being addicted to L2S, I tried to get familiar with VS2012 and EF5. But I nearly lost my nerves trying to use the data sources toolbox.

Finally I found a solution:

using Object Data Source is now the recommended approach for using EF in databinding scenarios. See this article for more details - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/jj574514. The article also includes a link to revert to the old code generation if that is what you desire.