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Implementing an Extension to EntityDataSource in VWD 2010

In Visual Web Developer 2010, I'm trying to implement the extension to EntityDataSource described on this page that enables Insert() to be used as a method:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/adodotnetentityframework/thread/d8a3ecd8-55dd-45ad-8175-d7ce912f46c2/

I get a compile error "CS0246: The type or namespace name 'EntityDataSource' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)"

I originally created the class as provided on this page:
http://forums.asp.net/t/1621469.aspx/1

No difference between the 2 (except the 1st link's version actually gets VWD to recognize the EntityDataSourceExtentions class name as something - color codes it in blue-green.)
I should be using .NET 4.0.

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These are the contents of the class, saved as EntityDataSourceExtentions.cs in App_Code:

using System.Collections.Specialized;

namespace System.Web.UI.WebControls
{
	public static class EntityDataSourceExtentions
	{
		private static bool DefaultOperationCallback(int affectedRows, Exception ex)
		{
				return false;
		}
		public static void Insert(this EntityDataSource dataSource)
		{
				(dataSource as IDataSource).GetView(string.Empty).Insert(new OrderedDictionary(),DefaultOperationCallback);
		}
	}
}

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This is the content of web.config, since that seems to play a role in adding different assemblies to the compile:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <connectionStrings>
    <add name="CustomConn" connectionString="Removed=true;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
    <add name="CustomEntities" connectionString="removed=true;multipleactiveresultsets=True;App=EntityFramework&quot;" providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" />
    <add name="TestConn" connectionString="removed=true;multipleactiveresultsets=True;App=EntityFramework&quot;" providerName="System.Data.EntityClient" />
  </connectionStrings>
  <system.web>
    <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0">
      <assemblies>
        <add assembly="System.Security, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=X1" />
        <add assembly="System.Data.Entity, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=X2" />
        <add assembly="System.Data.Entity.Design, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=X3" />
      </assemblies>
      <buildProviders>
        <add extension=".edmx" type="System.Data.Entity.Design.AspNet.EntityDesignerBuildProvider" />
      </buildProviders>
    </compilation>
    <customErrors mode="Off" />
    <pages>
      <controls>
        <add tagPrefix="custom" tagName="SidebarAds" src="~/_user_controls/SidebarAds.ascx" />
        <add tagPrefix="custom" tagName="ComingSoon" src="~/_user_controls/ComingSoon.ascx" />
        <add tagPrefix="custom" tagName="StateSelect" src="~/_user_controls/StateSelect.ascx" />
      </controls>
    </pages>
  </system.web>
</configuration>

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Now that I'm looking at web.config, I noted on a few websites, that there was a difference between "System.Data.Entity" and "System.Web.Entity". Should there be a .Web.Entity assembly added to make this work? Anyone happen to know its tag?

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Found it myself; no time saved.