ComplexType elements are not supported in the Entity Designer

[Juan Dent]

Hi,

I was following an example from "How to: Define a Model with Complex Type",
in the Defining Advanced Data Models section under ADO.NET Entity
Framework\Programming Guide\Entity Framework Tasks\Defining an Entity Data
Model, but apparently this information is outdated because VS2008 complains
when I compile the project saying: "ComplexType elements are not supported in
the Entity Designer".

Why is this? Isn't this very strange that a capability to support complex
types was working when that technical note was written but not in the final
product??

What can I do to circumvent this omission?

 

[Frans Bouma [C# MVP]]

Hi,

I was following an example from "How to: Define a Model with Complex Type",
in the Defining Advanced Data Models section under ADO.NET Entity
Framework\Programming Guide\Entity Framework Tasks\Defining an Entity Data
Model, but apparently this information is outdated because VS2008 complains
when I compile the project saying: "ComplexType elements are not supported in
the Entity Designer".

Why is this? Isn't this very strange that a capability to support complex
types was working when that technical note was written but not in the final
product??

Apparently they understaffed their designer team to build a designer
which allowed the user to work with the features in the framework.

What can I do to circumvent this omission?

Edit the xml by hand.

FB

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[Hongye Sun [MSFT]]

Thanks Juan and Frans

After tested in my environment, I successfully reproduced this error and
found that the error will not break the build and you can continue to run
the application by ignoring the error message.

This is a EDM designer known issue. It has already been reported at
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?Feedbac
kID=362351. The suggested solution is to change the build error to warning.
The product team is working on that right now.

I believe that the instructions in
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738613.aspx is outdated, because
the designer is introduced by Visual Studio 2008 SP1, while this article
was written before that.

I think the final solution should let EDM designer to support complex type,
but I don't know the schedule of the product team. I would suggest you to
tell your feedback at http://connect.microsoft.com/. I believe that they
will put it in the wish list of next release.

Thanks again for your post. Please don't hesitate to ask me if you have any
question. It is my pleasure to be assistance.

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