Why is my LINQ-to-SQL Tools tool not showing up in Visual Studio 7.14?


I installed LINQ-to-SQL in version 7.9, then noticed it didn’t show up when I tried to use it. After doing some research, someone said to update visual studio to the latest, so I did that. I confirmed that the tool is still installed, but when I try to go to my project > add new item, I can’t find the tool when searching for “linq”. I also tried searching for “dbml”, but that didn’t work.

The overall goal is to create a database diagram of my SQL Server 2019 database and I heard LINQ-to-SQL can generate dbml. Once I have that, I plan on pasting it into www.dbdiagram.io. If anyone has better ideas, I’m all ears.

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