title: Alternatives to Entity Framework Power Tools with Visual Studio Express 2012
body: <p>I am a recreational/novice coder and I'm trying to work through some MVC 4 / Entity Framework tutorials on the MSDN website to learn a new framework.</p>
  
  <p>The <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/jj200620" rel="nofollow">tutorial</a> makes reference to EF Power Tools Beta 3 but I am using Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web and it doesn't look like I can install those tools against it. As I recreational coder, I can't really justify paying $499 for the full version of Visual Studio. </p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know of an alternative for generating the code to map to the database or do I have to type it by hand (don't know it yet!)?</p>
  
  <p>Many Thanks</p>