[Mono-list] Entity Framework 6.0

[Daniel Lo Nigro]

You might also have to delete EntityFramework.dll from your bin directory
so Mono uses its own EntityFramework version.


On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Daniel Lo Nigro <lists at dan.cx> wrote:

> Hi Adwen,
>
> Everything works fine (i can login fine on the website) but the moment i
>> touch anything with Entity framework I get an Error.
>
> What errors are you getting? Make sure your application does not reference
> System.Data.Entity, only EntityFramework. As far as I know,
> System.Data.Entity contains some older Entity Framework stuff that isn't
> compatible with Mono.
>
> You should be able to use Visual Studio 2010 for your development. Having
> said that, I was having lots of problems getting EntityFramework working on
> Mono, and eventually gave up and switched to ServiceStack OrmLite<https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.OrmLite>which works "out of the box" on Mono. EF6 is still an alpha version targeting
> a final release date of mid-2013<http://visualstudiomagazine.com/blogs/data-driver/2012/11/entity-framework-6-alpha-1-announced.aspx> so
> I'm not sure if it's ready to be used in production scenarios yet.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Adwen <davirich82 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I've been having some troubles getting Entity framework(6.0 Alpha) to work
>> with mono. Or better said I do not know how to make it work. I'm using
>> Visual studio 2010 and I used nuget package to download the latest
>> opensource Entity Framework. Everything works fine (i can login fine on
>> the
>> website) but the moment i touch anything with Entity framework I get an
>> Error.
>> So what could I be doing wrong? Wrong .net framework (target framework
>> VS2010 only goes up to 4.0)? Do you have any examples on how does this
>> work
>> from visual studio 2010? Or should I use 2012? There is simply too little
>> information or than it is now supported in mono 2.11.3. Can someone from
>> the
>> team provide us with more information?
>>
>>
>>
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