Choose Model Contents Dialog Box

The Choose Model Contents dialog box is the part of the Entity Data Model Wizard that enables you to specify the contents of your model. You can create an empty model or generate the model from an existing database.

Note

The Entity Data Model Wizard is optimized for generating a model from an existing database.

The following table describes the user-interface elements in the Choose Model Contents dialog box.

Element	Description
Empty model	Creates an empty model.
Generate from database	Creates an Entity Data Model (EDM) from a selected database. The wizard helps you select the data source, database, tables, views, and stored procedures to include in the EDM.

See Also

Other Resources

Entity Data Model Wizard
Entity Data Model Tools
Quickstart (Entity Framework)