[Mono-dev] Trying figure out EF6

[Daniel Lo Nigro]

Thanks, I was unaware of that. Good to know :)

I gave up on getting EF6 working and instead switched to OrmLite from
ServiceStack:
https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.OrmLite

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Regards,
Daniel

Sent from my phone - please excuse any typos.
On Nov 23, 2012 3:59 AM, "Raul U." <ruria60 at yahoo.es> wrote:

> Hi Daniel, that is not all the truth, I think. Entity Framework 6 has some
> “little” breaking changes:****
>
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>
> -
> http://entityframework.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Rebuilding%20EF%20providers%20for%20EF6
> ****
>
> -
> http://entityframework.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Updating%20Applications%20to%20use%20EF6
> ****
>
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> I´ve managed to do this changes. Unfortunately, there are some minor error
> after that… for instance, _migrationhistory table comes with a compound
> primary key index, too long for MySql (see
> http://entityframework.codeplex.com/discussions/403680 for details) and
> more...****
>
> ** **
>
> I hope those things can be fixed soon, I´ll post back about it if someone
> is interested in.****
>
> ** **
>
> *De:* daniel at d15.biz [mailto:daniel at d15.biz] *En nombre de *Daniel Lo
> Nigro
> *Enviado el:* sábado, 10 de noviembre de 2012 1:51
> *Para:* Raul U.
> *CC:* mono-devel-list
> *Asunto:* Re: [Mono-dev] Trying figure out EF6****
>
> ** **
>
> Entity Framework uses the standard ADO.NET providers, so most ADO.NETproviders should work with it. This includes the MySQL one, which comes
> with Ubuntu and Debian in the "libmysql6.4-cli" package, or you can
> download it from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/. Just
> reference MySQL.Data.dll and set up your App.config or Web.config
> correctly. Here is an example config:****
>
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>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>****
>
> <configuration>****
>
>      <system.data>****
>
>           <DbProviderFactories>****
>
>               <add name="MySQL Data Provider"
> invariant="MySql.Data.MySqlClient" description=".Net Framework Data
> Provider for MySQL" type="MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlClientFactory,
> MySql.Data" />****
>
>           </DbProviderFactories>****
>
>      </system.data>****
>
>      <connectionStrings>****
>
>       <add name="BloggingContext" ****
>
>            connectionString="Server=localhost; Database=dotnettest;
> Uid=root; Pwd=password"****
>
>            providerName="MySql.Data.MySqlClient" />****
>
>      </connectionStrings>****
>
> </configuration>****
>
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> Obviously, change all the placeholder values (context name, server name,
> database, username, password). You will need to use a very recent version
> of Mono (3.0.1 or trunk) due to bug 7396<https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7936>
> .****
>
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> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Raul U. <ruria60 at yahoo.es> wrote:****
>
> Hi, I´m trying to use Entity Framework, I would like to use MySql. In my
> understanding there is no EF6 provider yet, so this is not possible. In
> fact, I only found two providers available for EF, SQL Server and SQL CE.*
> ***
>
>  ****
>
> Is this right? Is there any other option out there?****
>
>  ****
>
> Thx.****
>
>  ****
>
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