[Mono-dev] Request for status of Entity framework on Mono

[Martin Thwaites]

That's great news, but I can't purchase the licence.

It's promising news that it works with that, as it's a sign that I may be
able to get it working with Npgsql.

On 20 August 2013 21:33, jonathan at mugginsoft.com <jonathan at mugginsoft.com>wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have done some experimenting with the latest MS Entity 6 beta and the
> Devart SQLite data provider.
> I was able to query quite a substantial pre-existing data set when running
> on Mono.
> So it is doable.
>
> Jonathan
>
> On 19 Aug 2013, at 00:17, Martin Thwaites <monoforum at my2cents.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> Thanks Daniel.
>
> I'll have a look at those, but Ideally I wanted to look at Entity due to
> some work projects that are currently using it (pure windows .NET and VS).
>  The plan was to get the basics down in some hobby apps.
>
> I'm currently using NHibernate, and it works well, entity does look like
> fun to play with... I'm a very "ooo shiny" kinda guy.
>
> I did see a big merge happen in the last few days by Marek, so I was
> hoping that might be the start of something...
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
>
> On 18 August 2013 23:45, Daniel Lo Nigro <lists at dan.cx> wrote:
>
>> There's no official release of Entity Framework 6 yet, the latest release
>> is the first beta release. Additionally, I don't think all the supporting
>> architecture is fully working in Mono yet. You could try it and see,
>> although I'd use Entity Framework from NuGet as the one bundled with Mono
>> is out of date.
>>
>> If you only need basic features, I'd suggest looking at a micro ORM like
>> ServiceStack ORMLite, Dapper, or Massive. These are all very basic facades
>> over raw ADO.NET <http://ado.net/>, usually providing only basic ORM. I
>> use ORMLite with Mono and it works quite well.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Martin Thwaites <
>> monoforum at my2cents.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm starting a new project from scratch soon, and I'm selecting some
>>> components.  I do everything in mono.. you'll be pleased to hear ;)
>>>
>>> For ORM, I'm looking to utilise EntityFramework, so I'm wondering where
>>> the development is at, is anyone working on it, etc.
>>>
>>> I don't think I'll be using any advanced features, just the basics.  So,
>>> are the basics in enough of a usable state to put into a production
>>> application?
>>>
>>> I'm not seeing any stabilisation branches/tags in the repository, so can
>>> I assume that it's still in flux and should be avoided for the timebeing?
>>>
>>> I'll obviously give it a go and see, but just wondering if anyone has
>>> any experiences?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>> Martin
>>>
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