Creating The ADO.NET Entity Data Model Class Library

This video will walk you through the steps of creating the ADO.NET Entity Data Model Class Library for interacting with a database. In this video I made the assumption that you have already installed Visual Studio 2016 and SQL Server Express as well as the database that you want to work with.

In this video I cover the two steps:
1. Creating a Class Library Project for the ADO.NET Entity Data Model
2. Adding the ADO.NET Entity Data Model to the Class Library

[moccaOwca]

What happend between 2:38 and 2:45 because you're unable to choose Entity data model in th first place but then it worked. Why is that so?

[muneshchauhan]

Once you are in "Connection Properties", how do you select the "Server Name". Even after clicking Refresh, I do not see any options in the text box. Do you need to create a separate database in prior? And if yes, any links explaining how to so that?

[alesmohoric]

I appreciate your effort but you forgot the main thing: how to use/select the data.

[mrs.patriciathomas-evans]

I appreciate you tying to help others, but this was a horrible example. I am still lost staring at the cursor blinking, and you did not explain exactly how you added ADO.NET. I don't know if you clicked on the Reference and added it to the library or what. My assignment is due in two days and I lost two days trying to add this stupid ADO