DevForce does not currently appear to work in a standalone installation of Visual Studio 2012. We are currently investigating if Microsoft changed something from Beta to RC, or if there's something else going on. We do know that parts of Visual Studio 2012 RC currently require a side-by-side installation with VS 2010. This should all be resolved by the time RTM hits according to Microsoft. So far things seem to work as long as you have a side-by-side installation of VS2012 and VS2010.

Hi, that looks promising.

Did you use Windows 8 RC, because in de Windows 8 i get the following error. The dll is there, but the build fails.

Error 1 The "EntityModelMetadataDeploy" task failed unexpectedly.
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
File name: 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'

Server stack trace:
   at IdeaBlade.VisualStudio.DTE.ServiceProviderHelper.GetServiceProvider(DTE2 dte)
   at IdeaBlade.VisualStudio.DTE.ServiceProviderHelper.GetProjects(DTE2 dte)
   at IdeaBlade.VisualStudio.DTE.DTEHelper.GetProjectByFileName(String pFileName)
   at IdeaBlade.VisualStudio.Build.Tasks.EntityModelMetadataDeploy.Execute()
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink._PrivateProcessMessage(IntPtr md, Object[] args, Object server, Object[]& outArgs)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.SyncProcessMessage(IMessage msg)

Exception rethrown at [0]:
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type)
   at Microsoft.Build.Framework.ITask.Execute()
   at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskExecutionHost.Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.ITaskExecutionHost.Execute()
   at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskBuilder.<ExecuteInstantiatedTask>d__20.MoveNext()

WRN: Assembly binding logging is turned OFF.
To enable assembly bind failure logging, set the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog] (DWORD) to 1.
Note: There is some performance penalty associated with assembly bind failure logging.
To turn this feature off, remove the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog].
 DomainModel (DomainModel\DomainModel)

UPDATE: Version 1 has been officially released. There are separate NuGet packages for .NET and Silverlight. See updated link below.

For those of you eager to try the new async language features in C# 5 and Visual Basic 11, I’ve created just the thing for you. Announcing the “Cocktail Async Pack for Visual Studio 2012”.

The "Cocktail Async Pack for Visual Studio 2012" enables Cocktail/DevForce projects targeting .NET Framework 4.0 or Silverlight 5 to use the Async language feature in C# 5 and Visual Basic 11. This pack requires Visual Studio 2012 and will not work with Visual Studio 2010.

The Pack is available via NuGet and the source code is hosted on github. The NuGet package assumes that you are already using Cocktail, so it doesn’t bring the Cocktail package down with it, but it brings down the “Microsoft Async Targeting Pack for Visual Studio 2012”, which is required in order to use the new language features in .NET 4.0 and Silverlight 5.

NuGet: http://www.nuget.org/packages/Cocktail.AsyncPack

NuGet: http://nuget.org/packages?q=Cocktail

Github: http://github.com/IdeaBlade/Cocktail.AsyncPack

With the “Cocktail Async Pack” added to a project, all Cocktail and DevForce asynchronous operations become awaitable as in the following example. Check it out, play around with it and let me know what you think.

    [Export]

    public class MainPageViewModel : Screen

    {

        private IDialogManager _dialogManager;

        private NorthwindIBEntities _manager;

        [ImportingConstructor]

        public MainPageViewModel(IDialogManager dialogManager)

        {

            _dialogManager = dialogManager;

            _manager = new NorthwindIBEntities();

        }

        public async void SampleAction()

        {

            var customers = await _manager.Customers.Where(c => c.Country == "UK").ExecuteAsync();

            await _dialogManager.ShowMessageAsync(string.Format("Found {0} customers.", customers.Count()), DialogButtons.Ok);

            var employees = await _manager.Employees.ExecuteAsync();

            await _dialogManager.ShowMessageAsync(string.Format("Found {0} employees.", employees.Count()), DialogButtons.Ok);

        }

    }