I am using code written under Visual Studio 2010 as an example for a project I am writing for with Visual Studio 2012. I am having some difficulty using the DBContext class to instantiate a class. The code seems to required using the namespace System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure; and that does not seem to be defined in the newer System.Data.Entity reference.

Is the DbContext class defined and used differently in the version of C# for Visual Studio 2012 than in Visual Studio 2010?

I am using code written under Visual Studio 2010 as an example for a project I am writing for with Visual Studio 2012. I am having some difficulty using the DBContext class to instantiate a class. The code seems to required using the namespace System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure; and that does not seem to be defined in the newer System.Data.Entity reference.

To show you what I mean in coding terms, this is the line of code that does not compile:

    using System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure;

This is the code snap shot in the Visual Studio 2012 that does not compile:

It seems that "Infrastructure" is a component of "systems.data.entry.dll" that I have set as a reference:

But wait, there is more.  The code, as it exists in the visual studio 2012, is copied from code from a project that does, in fact, compile in visual studio 2010.

Notice, that there is no little red curly line under Infrastructure when I declare that I am using the namespace System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure in Visual Studio 2010:

The research I have done on this issue has lead to a dead-end.  This seems to be some sort of required add-in according to this web page::

You see, the problem seems to be centered around declaring and using the DbContext class.  But when I tried running this program from Microsoft after I downloaded it, it showed me that it was not for Visual Studio 2012.

What exactly is NuGet?

Oh, JohnAskew just gave a link.  I will give it a go.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2009/05/21/poco-in-the-entity-framework-part-1-the-experience.aspx

Sacha Barber is a prolific community member:

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/316068/Restful-WCF-EF-POCO-UnitOfWork-Respository-MEF-1-o

Use NuGet to look for Entity Framework templates for POCO proxy generation...

It was incomplete but I used my powers of reasoning to figure out what was to fill into the blanks.  It had a .edmx file which provided a diagram of the database.  Through poking around on what new classes provided a .edmx file, I found a class to use.  The rest was easy, I just right clicked on the diagram of the database and followed the steps.