Installing ADO.NET Entity Framework
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Before you proceed with installing EF Beta 3 and its tools, make sure that you have installed Visual Studio.NET 2008 Professional and SQL Server 2005 on your system.
[edit] Downloading the Software
Let us take a look at the necessary software that you need to download in order to work with the ADO.NET Entity Framework.
- Download ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3 from the following link:
- Download ADO.NET Entity Framework Tools December 2007 CTP from the link give below:
- Download the patch update to Visual Studio.NET 2008 from the link given below: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=104985
- Download Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 from the following link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8C36ACA4-E947-4760-9B05-93CAC04C6F87& displaylang=en
[edit] Installing the Software
Now that the required software has been downloaded, we will now install each one individually.
Double-click on the ADO.NET Entity Framework Setup file. The following installation wizard window will appear:
Now, click on Next. Here is how the next screen looks like:
In the above window that appears, check the checkbox and click on Install.
The installation procedure starts and when done, the following screen appears:
Click on Finish to complete the installation process.
Now that you have installed the ADO.NET Entity Framework successfully on your system, the next step is to install the ADO.NET Entity Framework Tools CTP. But before you do that, you need to install the Visual Studio.NET 2008 patch update.
Double-click on the Visual Studio.NET patch update setup file that you downloaded earlier. The following window appears:
Now, click on Next. The following window appears:
Check the check box to agree and accept the license terms and click on Next to start the installation process.
Once the installation is complete, the following window appears:
Click on Finish to complete the installation process.
Now, we need to install the ADO.NET Entity Framework Tools CTP. To do this, double-click on the ADO.NET Entity Framework December 2007 Tools CTP you downloaded earlier. The following screen appears:
Click on Next. The following window appears:
Now, check the check box to accept the license terms and click on Next. The following window will appear:
Click on Install to start the installation process. Once the installation is complete, the following window is displayed:
Click on Finish to complete the installation process.
We will now install Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. It contains many additional features and most importantly, we need it to work with the Entity Data Source control. We will discuss this control in the next tutorial.
To install Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 on your system, double-click on the setup file you downloaded earlier. The following screenshot shows the window that will appear:
Select the radio button to accept the terms of the license agreement and click on Install to start the installation process.
Once the installation process is complete, the following window is displayed:
Click on Exit to complete the installation process.
[edit] Source
The source of this content is Chapter 1: Installing ADO.NET Entity Framework of Entity Framework Tutorial by Joydip Kanjilal (Packt Publishing, 2008).
