Home/ Questions/Q 8788261
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-13T22:06:43+00:00

Background Visual Studio 2012 NEW Model.EDMX file created in VS2012 Copied some of the

  • 0

Background

  • Visual Studio 2012
  • NEW Model.EDMX file created in VS2012
  • Copied some of the EDMX xml from a previously created EDMX into the new one

Problem / Question

Now. The EDMX (TT transform, custom tool, whatever, etc.) is generating BOTH DbContext classes (under the Model.tt/Model.Context.tt files) and ObjectContext classes (via the Model.designer.cs file). See image below:

Both the Model.tt AND the Designer.cs files are defining my entities

Everything builds fine and works with the DbContext (but obviously only if I delete the Designer.cs file just before building) but the Designer.cs – and its ObjectContext-based code – keeps reappearing. How do I stop this behavior?!

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    I didn’t find out how to stop the Designer.cs file from generating the ObjectContext, but I did figure out how to make it so that it doesn’t matter. Just set the Build Action to “None” instead of “Compile”.

    Set the Build Action to None

    • 0