Ef6: EDMX Wizard table selection cutoff or blank

[ajcvickers]

From VS Feedback:

When adding an edmx model or updating the table, views and store procedure selection is cutoff or blank

[ajcvickers]

EF Team Triage: This issue is lacking enough information for us to be able to effectively triage it. In particular, it is missing the following information requested in the new issue template. Can you please provide this information?

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[tottes200]

Here are the steps to reproduce.

1. Add new ADO.NET Entity Data Model through wizard
2. Select EF Designer from database.
3. Setup connection and click next
   From here, once you are on the "Choose Your Database Objects and Settings" the view is cut off. Attached is a screenshot of what it looks like.
   

Also when you go back in to update the model nothing shows up except for "Retrieving database information, please wait..."

Side note not sure if it's prudent, but this is connecting to a MySQL database.

[lajones]

@tottes200 - we are not seeing that in current builds - so could you provide a few more details please - e.g. operating system, version(s) of VS installed and which one you are using when you see this, version(s) of .NET installed and using in this project, what kind of project you created etc. As much as you can to help us track it down please.

Also - if you wait a long time does that message ever go away? That message is supposed to appear while querying the database for the tables, views, sprocs to display. But it should go away once it has retrieved the information. If so, how long does it take and what numbers of tables, views, sprocs do you have in your database?

[tottes200]

OS:
Windows 10/Windows Server 2016 (seeing it on both OS versions)

Visual Studio:
Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise 2019 Preview
Version 16.1.0 Preview 2.0
VisualStudio.16.Preview/16.1.0-pre.2.0+28822.285

Project:
.Net 4.6.2 WPF

Entity Framework 6.2.0

My initial thought was that this could be a bug in VS 2019, but it was kicked over here for support. Please let me know of anything else I can provide.

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[tottes200]

Also, it never comes up no matter how long it sits.

[lajones]

@tottes200 Thanks - that's great info - I'll see if I can repro on my end.

[lajones]

@tottes200 I'm sorry. I've tried multiple different ways with as close as I can get to your setup and I can't repro the problem - the wizard always looks good to me. But I realize that doesn't help you much.

Potential workaround: that dialog is resizable - if you try expanding it as large as it goes does that help you navigate to the tables, views & sprocs that you need even if some portion of the screen is still covered by the message?

Potential workaround 2: does changing the screen resolution help?

[lajones]

EF Team Triage: Closing this issue as we have been unable to reproduce it.

BTW this is a canned response and may have info or details that do not directly apply to this particular issue. While we'd like to spend the time to uniquely address every incoming issue, we get a lot traffic on the EF projects and that is not practical. To ensure we maximize the time we have to work on fixing bugs, implementing new features, etc. we use canned responses for common triage decisions.

[thenextfreud]

I'm having the same issue

[blfuentes]

Same error here.
I created a ticket a couple of days ago.
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/562586/entity-data-model-wizard-display-error.html

[csharpner]

This is caused by large fonts. I have a 4K monitor and fonts set to 150% and experience exactly this problem. The work-around is to change your fonts back down to 100%, close VS and reopen. Now it behaves properly. Of course, the fonts are too freaking tiny, but at least this wizard is functional. Select the items you need to get passed that, then go and enlarge your fonts again so you can read.

[divega]

Reopening To try to repro with different font size in high density display.

[divega]

Cc @lajones @ajcvickers

[ajcvickers]

@lajones Was this fixed by #934?

[lajones]

@ajcvickers No. That was for the Model Browser and Mapping Details Windows. I'm working on this now.

[lajones]

Note: the VS side of this fix this was checked in (internal PR 188912) and the fix will appear in 16.2 Preview 4.