Question

I just got Visual-Studio 2012 Professional and am using the Entity-Framework (5.0) designer. I’ve been trying to convert a property to an Enum, and according to this Microsoft video I right click the property and choose Convert to Enum at (2:06) – there is no option for converting in my context menu.

Here I’m trying to convert Role to Enum. I’ve set Role to be an Int32.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Following the video in the post closely, I opened the Model Browser to add an Enum manually. After I had done so, and set the Role to the enum I had created. To test if I could now Convert To Enum on the property, I changed the type back to Int32 and then right clicked the property and and low and behold I see the Convert To Enum option in the context menu!

So, if your having problems these are the steps I used to enable the Convert To Enum option. This is a hack in my opinion, as now I cannot reproduce this behavior with a new solution and project. Apparently once the Model Browser has been opened for the first time (or the complete steps below) it now shows the Convert To Enum option.

-1. Using the Quick Launch search window, I typed in Model Browser and opened it up.

-2. Choose Add New Enum Type... from right clicking Enum Types in the Model Browser for your Data Model.

-3. Set your property to the enum, scroll to the bottom of the listed types in the combo-box and choose the enum.