Hi staceyw,

Issue 1: if the table is already "known" to the designer, then you don't need to import it again. If you delete it from your conceptual model you can re-add it by creating a new entity and mapping it to the underlying table (in the mapping designer the table will still show up). The "update from database" thing is usually needed when you actually changed something in the database, or want to add something that you didn't add originally.

Issue 2: yeah, that's our bad. It's not that we didn't catch it, actually. Because of timing issues we couldn't get support for this data type in Astoria v1.

Issue 3: I've seen this too in my box, but couldn't reproduce it reliable. Do you happen to have the Silverlight tools installed? I have a "weaking founded" theory that these two are not interacting well...

btw - as littleguru mentioned, the best place for Astoria-related questions is the Astoria forums. The Astoria team and MVPs hang out there regularly.

-pablo