VB Magic

I’ve added reference to EntityFramework (Downloaded by NuGet) to my MVC 3 project.

I then created the following two classes to represent my tables:

Imports System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations

Public Class tImage
    <Key()>
    Public Property ID As Int64

    <MaxLength(50)>
    Public Property name As String

    <MaxLength(255)>
    Public Property URL As String

    Public Property type As tImageType

    <MaxLength(50)>
    Public Property tag As String
End Class

Imports System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations

Public Class tImageType
    <Key()>
    Public Property ID As Integer

    <MaxLength(50)>
    Public Property name As String

    <MaxLength(255)>
    Public Property description As String

End Class

And then created the following class as my data context:

Imports System.Data.Entity

Public Class TyranntDB
    Inherits DbContext

    Public Property images As DbSet(Of tImage)
    Public Property imageTypes As DbSet(Of tImageType)

End Class

I then added the following connection string to my web.config file:

  <connectionStrings>
             .....
    <add name="TyranntDB"
         connectionString="Data Source=.\SQL08;Initial Catalog=jsundb;Integrated Security=True;Pooling=False"
         providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
  </connectionStrings>

Everything from this point compiled ok. After this I created an Image Controller

Namespace TyranntServices
    Public Class ImageController
        Inherits System.Web.Mvc.Controller


        Dim _db As New TyranntDB
        '
        ' GET: /Image

        Function Index() As ActionResult

            Dim model = _db.images

            Return View(model)
        End Function
...

And the following View to list Images (Well it was mostly auto generated by using the Add View option with list template):

@ModelType IEnumerable(Of TyranntServices.tImage)

@Code
    ViewData("Title") = "Index"
End Code

<h2>Index</h2>

<p>
    @Html.ActionLink("Create New", "Create")
</p> 
<table>
    <tr>
        <th></th>
        <th>
            name
        </th>
        <th>
            URL
        </th>
        <th>
            tag
        </th>
    </tr>

@For Each item In Model
    @<tr>
        <td>
            @Html.ActionLink("Edit", "Edit", New With {.id = item.ID}) |
            @Html.ActionLink("Details", "Details", New With {.id = item.ID}) |
            @Html.ActionLink("Delete", "Delete", New With {.id = item.ID})
        </td>
        <td>
            @item.name
        </td>
        <td>
            @item.URL
        </td>
        <td>
            @item.tag
        </td>
    </tr>
Next
</table>

This all seems to compile well. When I run though, the tables do not get generated and I get an error stating that the dbo.tImages does not exist.

It’s late now so will post this and hope I can soon update it with what is wrong.

Jas