Entity Framework Code First---EF Power Tool working with MySQL problems encountered

For an introduction to how to use the EF Power tool, see http://www.cnblogs.com/LingzhiSun/archive/2011/05/24/EFPowerTool_1.html, which is no longer verbose.

MySQL has a default sample database in the world, with three tables in it,

Download the entity Framework Power Tools installation package, which is now the BETA3 version, http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/ 72a60b14-1581-4b9b-89f2-846072eff19d/

After downloading the installation, then create a new console project with the project name Efentity, then right-click on the project name and select entity framework– in the pop-up menu Reverse Engineering code First.

Select the appropriate database connection

You can see that the referenced assembly is not referenced

App. Config also has one more providers child node

  <entityFramework>

    <defaultconnectionfactory type="System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure.LocalDbConnectionFactory, EntityFramework ">

      <parameters>

        value="v11.0"/>

      </parameters>

    </defaultConnectionFactory>

    Remove this child node

      <provider invariantname="System.Data.SqlClient" type=" System.Data.Entity.SqlServer.SqlProviderServices, Entityframework.sqlserver "/> 

    </providers>

  </entityFramework>

The providers sub-node needs to be deleted, referring to the MySQL connector driver

To run the program properly.

Entity Framework Code First---EF Power Tool working with MySQL problems encountered