No templates on install

[Sean]

Just installed the latest free OpenAccess ORM 2012 and see not templates in visual web dev 2010 on two different machines. Uninstalled and reinstalled a couple times with no success. Does the the free version not work in the free vw dev 2010?

[Ivailo]

Hello Sean,

Unfortunately you are almost right with you guess - the free versions of Visual Studio are not supported by OpenAccess ORM, meaning that:
- you will not have any Visual Designer available
- you will not be able to use any wizards or project templates

What you can use is only the Fluent Mapping API (also called the Code-Only approach), in case you find it suitable for your project. I hope that helps.

Greetings,
Ivailo
the Telerik team

[Sean]

So the free version of OpenAccess only supports the full version of 2010? That's seems to be a little counter intuitive... Any plans on making that happen in the roadmap?

[Ivailo]

Hello Sean,

In fact, even the commercial release does not support those visual parts of the product, since they are parts of a Visual Studio add-in and the free versions of Visual Studio do not support add-ins, so there is technically no way to make that happen in the near future.

Kind regards,
Ivailo
the Telerik team

[steven schmalfeld]

I also just installed the latest ORM (Telerik_OpenAccess_ORM_2012_1_301_dev.msi) and it did not install the templates in either VS 2010  or 2008. I have full professional licenses and I am a licensed Enterprise user for Telerik.

[Ivailo]

Hello Steven,

In general, if you are using the commercial editions of Visual Studio 2008/2010, you should have all the OpenAccess templates in place once OpenAccess ORM is installed.

Can you verify that .NET Framework 4.0 is selected on the Add New Project screen? Also - are the templates the only thing missing or you are experiencing other issues? For instance, can you create a Domain Model and to see your persistent classes in the Visual Designer, when you open the generated RLINQ file?

I am looking forward to your feedback.

Kind regards,
Ivailo
the Telerik team

[steven schmalfeld]

Uninstalled and re installed and it worked..sorry for the fuss

[Torben K.]

I'm running Visual Studio 2008 professional, and Mr. Schmalfeld is right - the trick is to uninstall and reinstall the ORM in order to have the addin installed and get access to the templates!