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answered on 30 Apr 2010, 07:06 AM

Hi kamakaze,
We are still working on the product. The scope of development was expanded a bit as we will introduce a new enhancer based on Mono.Cecil that should solve all enhancer issues currently available under VS2010. We would like to put both the designer support and the enhancer into a single release. However there is still work to be done. I cannot promise you right now we will be able top release today.

All the best,
Dimitar Kapitanov
the Telerik team

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answered on 09 Jun 2010, 03:48 AM

I am using ORM-2010.1.527.2 with VS 2010 and Silverlight 4 2010-1-0603 and trying to reverse engineer and existing schema by following the steps at http://www.telerik.com/help/openaccess-orm/walkthroughs-walkthrough-rev-eng.html.

I go to enable the project, I get a message about adding an OpenAccess Domain Model if I want to use an existing schema. Since I want to use an existing schema, I tried to do that. However, I cannot find 'OpenAccess Domain Model' as a choice under 'Add new item.' I started looking under Data, but ended up searching all the options: Code, Data, General, Web,...

Any suggestions?

answered on 11 Jun 2010, 09:11 PM

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Carl,
I attached two screen shots of my VS 2010 environment. I uninstalled 2010.1.531.1 of OpenAccess and installed 2010.1.610.1 to make sure something had not gotten broken and it has not. My OpenAccess installation works great with my VS 2010 installation.

Do you have either of the items shown in my screen shots in VS 2010?

**Edit: Also just to let you know my dev machine is 64bit Windows 7.

answered on 14 Jun 2010, 08:08 AM

Hi Carl,

Regarding the Menu items - That is a weird bug which we are trying hard to fix. All menu items below the 'Help' item are items from the 'Telerik Just Code' product. So if you do not seem them there's nothing to worry.

Which version of the .NET framework does your project target? The designer is available for .NET version 3.5 and above
Do you have the OpenAccess designer template file 'EntityDiagrams.zip' under the following path - <Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0 installation folder>\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\CSharp\Data?

Sincerely yours,
Ady
the Telerik team

answered on 15 Jun 2010, 11:08 PM

Thanks for explanation.

With regard to looking for EntityDiagrams.zip, I did find a file with that name at

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\CSharp\Data

and at

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\Data

but NOT at

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\VisualBasic\Data

and I was trying to use Visual Basic so that explains part of the problem. Hopefully, you can release a new fix that corrects the problem. Also, when trying to use the ORM Data Services Wizard at the step where there is a choice to select Telerik controls or regular Microsoft controls, the Telerik controls option is ghosted out so that it cannot be used --- which does not make any sense because I've also run the configuration check utility which reports that all the correct Telerik assemblies are referenced correctly. So is this another bug?

answered on 16 Jun 2010, 05:00 PM

Hi Carl,

Actually the Data Services Wizard checks for the following assemblies before allowing you to create a SL application with our controls, so could you please double check if they exist:

1- [Telerik Installation folder]\[Telerik\RadControls folder]\Binaries\Silverlight\Telerik.Windows.Controls.dll

2- [Telerik Installation folder]\[Telerik\RadControls folder]\Binaries\Silverlight\Telerik.Windows.Controls.GridView.dll

3- [Telerik Installation folder]\[Telerik\RadControls folder]\Binaries\Silverlight\Telerik.Windows.Controls.Input.dll

4- [Telerik Installation folder]\[Telerik\RadControls folder]\Binaries\Silverlight\Telerik.Windows.Controls.Navigation.dll

5- [Telerik Installation folder]\[Telerik\RadControls folder]\Binaries\Silverlight\Telerik.Windows.Data.dll

After verifying that the assemblies are there, If you still are not able to use the wizard, please send me the notification that you get.
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Greetings,
Rizk Sobhi
the Telerik team

answered on 16 Jun 2010, 09:21 PM

I checked the installation directories, and I can confirm that all of the assemblies that you listed are in fact there.

Going through the Data Services Wizard, here is what happens:

Select DAL and Output Project - no problem here.

Select RLINQ Model - the wizard skipped over this step but why? Does it do so automatically if there's only one rlinq model in the DAL Project? If so, then why shouldn't the developer be given the opportunity to confirm selection prior to proceeding?

Select Data Service - I can select some entities, check Generate Silverlight Application. Then it is possible to choose the Telerik Controls radiobutton, but a popup error message window "Creating Silverlight Application" appears and it says "Please install Rad Controls for Silverlight and try again". Clicking "OK" reverts the radiobutton choice to Standard Controls. This behavior occurs for the first two Data Service Types "Data Services for .Net 4" and "WCF Endpoint Service". And for the other two Data Service Types "REST Collection WCF Service" and "ATOM Publishing WCF Service", the Standard/Telerik controls radiobuttons are completely ghosted out and there is no choice possible at all.

So I have not yet been able to use the Data Services Wizard.

answered on 17 Jun 2010, 06:51 PM

Hi Carl,

- Could you please reinstall the Rad Controls and try again(without changing the installation path). If the same problem still occurs, please write me back the installation directory that you have used.

- The select model step will be only available if you have more than one RLINQ model at the same DAL, otherwise it will be useless and no confirmation needed to assure selecting this model.

- Generating SL application is only available now for Astoria and WCF services. You can notice the selection becoming dimmed if you choose Rest or AtomPub services.

Sincerely yours,
Rizk Sobhi
the Telerik team

answered on 17 Jun 2010, 09:55 PM

So I completely uninstalled SP2 and SP1 folders then re-installed the current Silverlight SP2, and that did solve the problem in the Data Services Wizard where the Telerik Controls radiobutton was ghosted out.

However, I continue to encounter problems and the Data Services Wizard never completed successfully. Moreover, it insists on generating a C# Silverlight app instead of the VB Silverlight app that I request in the Data Services Wizard. Lastly, when it fails to complete successfully, it complains about being unable to generate the proxy and returns the following error on a call to http://localhost:1584/SampleServiceName.svc/ in the VS2010 dev server browser window:

Request Error

The server encountered an error processing the request. The exception message is 'DataServiceKey attribute must specify at least one property name. Parameter name: keyNames'. See server logs for more details. The exception stack trace is:

at System.Data.Services.Common.DataServiceKeyAttribute..ctor(String[] keyNames) at System.Reflection.CustomAttribute._CreateCaObject(RuntimeModule pModule, IRuntimeMethodInfo pCtor, Byte** ppBlob, Byte* pEndBlob, Int32* pcNamedArgs) at System.Reflection.CustomAttribute.CreateCaObject(RuntimeModule module, IRuntimeMethodInfo ctor, IntPtr& blob, IntPtr blobEnd, Int32& namedArgs) at System.Reflection.CustomAttribute.GetCustomAttributes(RuntimeModule decoratedModule, Int32 decoratedMetadataToken, Int32 pcaCount, RuntimeType attributeFilterType, Boolean mustBeInheritable, IList derivedAttributes, Boolean isDecoratedTargetSecurityTransparent) at System.Reflection.CustomAttribute.GetCustomAttributes(RuntimeType type, RuntimeType caType, Boolean inherit) at System.RuntimeType.GetCustomAttributes(Boolean inherit) at System.Data.Services.Providers.ReflectionServiceProvider.IsPropertyKeyProperty(PropertyInfo property, ResourceKeyKind& keyKind) at System.Data.Services.Providers.ReflectionServiceProvider.DoesTypeHaveKeyProperties(Type type, Boolean entityTypeCandidate) at System.Data.Services.Providers.ReflectionServiceProvider.BuildHierarchyForEntityType(Type type, IDictionary`2 knownTypes, IDictionary`2 childTypes, Queue`1 unvisitedTypes, Boolean entityTypeCandidate) at System.Data.Services.Providers.ReflectionServiceProvider.PopulateMetadata(IDictionary`2 knownTypes, IDictionary`2 childTypes, IDictionary`2 entitySets) at System.Data.Services.Providers.BaseServiceProvider.PopulateMetadata() at System.Data.Services.DataService`1.CreateProvider() at System.Data.Services.DataService`1.HandleRequest() at System.Data.Services.DataService`1.ProcessRequestForMessage(Stream messageBody) at SyncInvokeProcessRequestForMessage(Object , Object[] , Object[] ) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.SyncMethodInvoker.Invoke(Object instance, Object[] inputs, Object[]& outputs) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.DispatchOperationRuntime.InvokeBegin(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage5(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage41(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage4(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage31(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage3(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage2(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage11(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage1(MessageRpc& rpc) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.MessageRpc.Process(Boolean isOperationContextSet)

answered on 17 Jun 2010, 10:18 PM

this is a follow up to my previous post...

Finally, I did manage to get the Data Services Wizard to complete successfully by unchecking all of the views and only checking the tables and stor procs in the .rlinq model from OpenAccess ORM.

However, there is still a real bug in the Data Services Wizard because it still insists on generating a proxy.cs for a C# Silverlight app even though I explicitly requested a VB Silverlight app.

Hopefully, you can fix the bugs and improve the developer experience with this Wizard, because after all, the whole point of the Wizard is to make it ridiculously easy for us! Right?

And by the way, will the Data Services Wizard work only with tables and stor procs (as I've experienced) or if it will work with views, then what is the necessary requirements or configuration to make that happen?

answered on 18 Jun 2010, 05:41 PM

Hello Carl,

I am afraid that the Data Services Wizard is not yet able to generate VB templates but we are working on that at the moment.

And to answer you question about the views - the problem is I think you have forgotten to specify a primary key for each view, that is why the proxy failed to be created. So all you have to do is right-click in your model, click Validate model, then go through each error appearing in the errors tab, double-click to invoke the error resolving dialog and fix the problems.
After fixing the primary key related errors the problem should disappear if you regenerate the proxy again.

Kind regards,
Rizk Sobhi
the Telerik team

answered on 18 Jun 2010, 06:03 PM

Thanks for these explanations which lead me to offer the following suggestions based on the principle that the whole point of a Wizard is to make it "ridiculously easy" for the developer so that the developer saves time, does not get confused, and does not have to worry about whether he forgot something:

1) If a feature/function in the interface for the Wizard is not yet available, then ghost it out or provide a popup help tip explaining that it is not yet available.

2) Include in the sequence of steps and checks in the Wizard, the step for validating the data model with a reminder to the developer to first fix the data model if it is not valid before proceeding with the remainder of the steps in the Wizard.

Thanks!