Generating Views With Entity Framework Power Tools Beta 3 When DbContext Uses Unity (Or Other Libraries)

Question

I am having trouble running the "Generate Views" command from Entity Framework Power Tools Beta 3 on a Code First DbContext. I get a dialog box indicating that an exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. The build output window does not contain any additional information. However, if I start commenting stuff out, I do get a TargetInvocationException reported in the build output window with a stack trace. It appears to get thrown any time my DbContext class accesses Unity - particularly in the OnModelCreating() method (we use IoC to put type configuration and other EF initialization code closer to the actual entity instead of sticking it all in the DbContext class).

I'm assuming the issue has something to do with the Entity Framework Power Tools being able to load the appropriate reference assemblies when the DbContext class makes use of third-party libraries. Does anyone have any thoughts about how to get around this? Is using Entity Framework Power Tools with DbContexts that use additional libraries a known problem?

Thanks.

I created a T4 template for generating views. You can try that. Here are more details: blog.3d-logic.com/2012/06/13/… — Pawel
@Pawel - I tried it out and it works great - thanks for putting that together! If you post this as a regular answer, I'd be happy to mark it as correct. — daveaglick

Pawel Pawel · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-10T23:29:02

You can try using a T4 template for generating views for Code First I posted on VS Gallery some time ago. You can find more details here.

Generating Views With Entity Framework Power Tools Beta 3 When DbContext Uses Unity (Or Other Libraries)

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