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How to get the association lines to behave (and persist) in the EDMX designer?

Whenever I open my .EDMX file for editing, the association lines connecting the various entities are different (and varying wildly) from how I left them when I last closed it.

Here's VS2013's latest drunken spree:

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I've tried editing the Diagram XML, but still I've found no success against this.

For example, here's the XML for the longest misbehavior above:

<AssociationConnector Association="Model.FK_InvoiceItems_Invoices" ManuallyRouted="true" >
  <ConnectorPoint PointX="2" PointY="11.875" />
  <ConnectorPoint PointX="6.5" PointY="11.875" />
</AssociationConnector>

It's pretty straightforward: we should be seeing just one straight horizontal line between Invoices and InvoiceItems. I have no idea how we ended up with this mess. I can drag it back into place, save it and close it, but as soon as I open the file up again it comes back.

Is anyone else having the same problem?

Solution

  • OK, I've decided that in its current iteration the EF designer simply isn't able to handle what I'm trying to throw at it. It appears to be a bit buggy yet.

    So I've turned off ManuallyRouted in all elements and rearranged my Entities instead so that I don't get overlapping lines (which is what I was trying to accomplish in the first place).

    There's far more important stuff in the world to worry about than this.

    Thanks for your attention.