Why the heck would you remove the Visual Designer in Visual Studio?!!!?!??? That is crazy, as it is one of the main reasons I've used OpenAccess since it a paid product in DevCraft Complete. I don't want a code only ORM -- that is like the bad old days of nHibernate. Please fix this ASAP. I still don't like that the ORM was made free, by the way, I want ongoing, active development that is first class. You seem to have done that, which is great, but this latest move seems to indicate otherwise.
I'm also not happy with the fact that I had to install four NuGet to find the assemblies, which I only seem to be able to install in my main WPF gui project automatically. I have a COTS/Telerik/OpenAccess folder in my solution, which is shared by several projects. I put my ORMs in dedicated ORM projects that the WPF or ASP.NET projects reference. I followed the steps on how to use the ORM without installing it to solve most of my issues. I'm able to compile everything, but the WPF projects say they can't find the embedded .rlinq file in the ORM assmbly, so it breaks all of my apps.
I uses the OpenAccessNuGet.targets file as my OpenAccess.targets file, as I did not see it anywhere else (this is also a problem). I have the following in my ropertyGroup:
<OpenAccessPathCondition="'$(OpenAccessPath)'==''">$(SolutionDir)COTS\Telerik\OpenAccess\</OpenAccessPath><EnhancerAssemblyCondition="'$(EnhancerAssembly)'==''">$(OpenAccessPath)enhancer.exe</EnhancerAssembly>
Very frustrated, very long time Telerik customer. Please help!