Save the model, and you get “file modified outside Visual Studio” prompt, and hung ObjectMapper

Open Visual Studio

Create a new Windows Forms project, call it anything

Selected Tools->Object mapper and load the object mapper

Set the namespace to TestModel and change nothing else (leave the key as default and the default connection string which is the ideablade tutorial)

Click Save and save the model to the current project, Click Yes when prompted to write the model

Close Object mapper

Open IdeaBlade.ibconfig in Visual Studio as a Text/XML file – leave this file open

Launch Object mapper again

Add a table (click + and select any table)

Click Save and answer yes when prompted

Change the key name from ‘default’ to ‘default2’ (or anything else)

Click Save and answer yes to update project

A warning will come up about AppHelper already existing, click yes

A warning should come up about ideablade.ibconfig being modified outside Visual Studio, and do you want to reloaded it, but you can click any buttons as the mouse cursor is a “waiting” cursor and you must load Task manager to kill Visual Studio.