How to Reverse Engineer Code First for a VB .net project using the Entity Framework

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I have managed this using the following steps

Create a new C# project
Use the Entity Framework Power Tools to create the models and Mapping in that project from the database
Upload the files to http://converter.telerik.com/batch.aspx to convert them to VB .NET
Download the VB files
Add the VB files to the VB .NET project I am working on
Fix any errors caused by the conversion

Does anyone know of a simpler way to do this?

Edit If there isn't another way, I could write my data access layer in a separate C# assembly which would work around the problem.

Gert Arnold · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-05 22:09:09Z

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The answer is simple: Entity Framework Power Tools is for C# only.

However, it is meant to give you a quick start in code-first projects. Once you reverse-engineered your POCO's you can proceed the code-first way, i.e. modify the class model and use migrations to modify the database. So I think it's not a big point to do this the way you do. You're probably not going to do it too often.

answered Nov 5, 2013 at 22:09

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