VS2013 Update 3 and Entity Framework

Today we are releasing Visual Studio 2013 Update 3. You can read the release announcements by Soma and Brian Harry. This update includes the Entity Framework 6.1.1 (EF6.1.1) runtime and tooling.

EF6.1.1 was previously released out-of-band about 6 weeks ago, so you may have already installed the update to Entity Framework. If not, it will be automatically installed when you install Visual Studio 2013 Update 3.

 

How do I get Update 3?

You can download Visual Studio 2013 Update 3.

Note that installing the update will not affect the version of the Entity Framework runtime included in existing projects. We recommend using NuGet to update to the latest version of the runtime. For detailed information on how to upgrade, see Updating a Package in the NuGet documentation.

PM> Update-Package EntityFramework

 

What’s in EF6.1.1?

You can see a list of the fixes/changes included in EF6.1.1 on our CodePlex site.

In particular, we’d like to call out the following two fixes to issues that a number of people have encountered:

• Designer: Error opening EF5 edmx with decimal precision in EF6 designer
• Default instance detection logic for LocalDB doesn't work with SQL Server 2014

Comments

• Anonymous
  August 08, 2014
  what are the new features in EF6.1.1

• Anonymous
  August 12, 2014
  @Raj - This post has details on the 6.1.1 release - blogs.msdn.com/.../ef-6-1-1-rtm-available.aspx. No new features in this one, just bug fixes.