Why can't Entity Framework see my Stored Procedure's column information?

Question

I have the following stored procedure and when I attempt to Function Import it says my Stored Procedure returns no columns. What am I missing? Any Suggestions?

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Answer 1

Just add the select statement without the quotation, execute the stored proc, go get update the model, edit your function import and get column information. This should populate the new columns. Update the result set and go back to your stored proc and remove the select list you just added. And execute the stored proc. This way your columns will get populated in the result set. See below where to add the select list without quote.

    ALTER PROCEDURE [healthc].[ev_kc_Products_Search]
(
    @SearchString   VARCHAR(1000)
)

AS
SET NOCOUNT ON;
SELECT  VendorID ID,
        Name VendorName,
        NULL ItemName,
        ''V'' Type,
        0 Sequence
    FROM    tblVendors

DECLARE @SQL    VARCHAR(max),
    @SQL1   VARCHAR(max),
    @Tag    VARCHAR(5)

CREATE TABLE #T
(   ID      INT,
    VendorName  VARCHAR(255),
    ItemName        VARCHAR(255),
    Type        VARCHAR(2),
    Sequence        TINYINT
)

SET @SQL = '

INSERT  #T

SELECT  VendorID ID,
    Name VendorName,
    NULL ItemName,
    ''V'' Type,
    0 Sequence
FROM    tblVendors
WHERE   '+REPLACE(@SQL1,@Tag,'Name')+'

UNION ALL

BLAH BLAH BLAH'

EXEC(@SQL)

SELECT ID, VendorName, ItemName, Type FROM #T

I hope this helps someone out there.