Month: November 2016

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Launching a new debugger instance from code in Visual Studio

This post describes a quick solution to launching a new Visual Studio instance for debugging the code. There are a lot of applications for this, but where I’ve found it exceptionally useful, has been in debugging the Entity Framework’s code-first migration (one of the ways for database initialization) Seed-method. It is by default undebuggable, as when you are running Update-Database you can’t really use a -debug switch or anything, and there’s really no way to launch the debugger. Hence the best you can do is…Continue reading Launching a new debugger instance from code in Visual Studio

No Entity Framework provider found for the ADO.NET provider with invariant name 'System.Data.SqlClient'

Fixing error “No Entity Framework provider found for the ADO.NET provider with invariant name ‘System.Data.SqlClient'”

This post describes the fix to error “No Entity Framework provider found for the ADO.NET provider with invariant name ‘System.Data.SqlClient’“, which Visual Studio throws at your face when you try to run an application on any Windows-based system (or which you’ve dug out of event logs). Also, your application is probably built on .NET Framework and Entity Framework. Let’s get into it! Error When debugging/running your code, somewhere in your code where you’re supposed to access the database using Entity Framework, you get an error like…Continue reading Fixing error “No Entity Framework provider found for the ADO.NET provider with invariant name ‘System.Data.SqlClient’”