I'm entering this as a new issue as you marked the [previous entry of this bug](https://efreversepoco.codeplex.com/workitem/145) as Resolved.
I have indeed confirmed that I followed all the steps of your installation instructions, and both Entity Framework 6 tools for Visual Studio 2012 & 2013 are installed. See attached screenshots of confirmation on installation of these requirements.
It might be worthwhile noting that while I do have VS 2013 installed on my dev machine, I do not have VS 2012 installed (just the framework 6 tool) if that makes any difference.
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I downloaded the tool and followed the instruction for installing and running the tool, and upon adding the database1.tt file I immediately got this error.
I'm using EF 6.1.3
Both the EF.Reverse.POCO.Core.ttinclude and the EF.Reverse.POCO.ttinclude are in the project.
Error Loading the include file 'EF6.Utility.CS.ttinclude' returned a null or empty string. The transformation will not be run. FlightwiseWebJobContainer C:\Src\Acme\Flightwise2013\FlightwiseServerSide\FlightwiseWebJobs\FlightwiseWebJobContainer\EF.Reverse.POCO.Core.ttinclude 6 Build
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SimonHughes wrote Today at 3:50 AM
Hi,
Did you follow the installation instructions on the front page ?
It looks like you are missing step 1
1.Install Entity Framework 6 Tools for Visual Studio 2012 & 2013 available here: www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40762 This installs the required EF6.Utility.CS.ttinclude which is used for pluralisation. You only need to do this once.
hintzen wrote Today at 6:36 AM
Yes I did follow the instructions on the front page, and I even ran both installs a second Time to be sure they were installed, both of them reported they were already installed, but to be safe I had the "repair"
Same result
Comments: Nope, no joy at all, I've tried all the things I can think of short of installing Visual Studio 2012 web edition, which sorta seems like overkill as a requirement to get an extension to run in VS2015, but I'm not sure what else to try. I'm leaning at this point with not even bother to use EF. They are killing the designer with the next release, 7, they don't have "reverse engineer from a database" built in as a native function to EF (which is a price of admission for me and my group). So Like Jet, OleDb, ADO, LinqToSql before it, EF is just becoming too rigid in how you can use it, monolithic, and top-heavy to be used as a ORM for our needs. Back to rolling our own (again).
I have indeed confirmed that I followed all the steps of your installation instructions, and both Entity Framework 6 tools for Visual Studio 2012 & 2013 are installed. See attached screenshots of confirmation on installation of these requirements.
It might be worthwhile noting that while I do have VS 2013 installed on my dev machine, I do not have VS 2012 installed (just the framework 6 tool) if that makes any difference.
============ Previous Work Item Text ===============
I downloaded the tool and followed the instruction for installing and running the tool, and upon adding the database1.tt file I immediately got this error.
I'm using EF 6.1.3
Both the EF.Reverse.POCO.Core.ttinclude and the EF.Reverse.POCO.ttinclude are in the project.
Error Loading the include file 'EF6.Utility.CS.ttinclude' returned a null or empty string. The transformation will not be run. FlightwiseWebJobContainer C:\Src\Acme\Flightwise2013\FlightwiseServerSide\FlightwiseWebJobs\FlightwiseWebJobContainer\EF.Reverse.POCO.Core.ttinclude 6 Build
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SimonHughes wrote Today at 3:50 AM
Hi,
Did you follow the installation instructions on the front page ?
It looks like you are missing step 1
1.Install Entity Framework 6 Tools for Visual Studio 2012 & 2013 available here: www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40762 This installs the required EF6.Utility.CS.ttinclude which is used for pluralisation. You only need to do this once.
hintzen wrote Today at 6:36 AM
Yes I did follow the instructions on the front page, and I even ran both installs a second Time to be sure they were installed, both of them reported they were already installed, but to be safe I had the "repair"
Same result
Comments: Nope, no joy at all, I've tried all the things I can think of short of installing Visual Studio 2012 web edition, which sorta seems like overkill as a requirement to get an extension to run in VS2015, but I'm not sure what else to try. I'm leaning at this point with not even bother to use EF. They are killing the designer with the next release, 7, they don't have "reverse engineer from a database" built in as a native function to EF (which is a price of admission for me and my group). So Like Jet, OleDb, ADO, LinqToSql before it, EF is just becoming too rigid in how you can use it, monolithic, and top-heavy to be used as a ORM for our needs. Back to rolling our own (again).