postgresql does not appear in Data Source when generating .ADO.net Entity Data Model

Question

I succeeded in accessing an existing postgresql dbase by using npgsql directly. I used for this:

1. PostgreSQL 9.0.10 (32 bit)
2. Visual Studio 2015 Commu

Answer 1

This bugged me for hours in VS2017. I played with the app.config settings manually with no joy. The steps to fix it for me were:

1. Install Npgsql.vsix from the version of npgsql i want to use from here
2. Remove nuget packages EntityFramework, Npgsql, EntityFramework6.Npgsql
3. Remove blocks in app.config with any references to these packages including entityFramework and assemblyBindings.
4. Re-install the nuget packages above in that order
5. Rebuild

EDIT

I also had to add the following to app.config to successfully run Enable-Migrations