[Mono-list] Mono 3.0 and Entity Framework

[Matthias Buchetics]

Thank you, that makes sense.

But why is this information nowhere to be found on the official site?


On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Daniel Lo Nigro <lists at dan.cx> wrote:

> Mono includes a prerelease version of Entity Framework 6.0. This is the
> only version that Microsoft has released as open-source. You should be able
> to grab the EntityFramework.dll file from Mono's GAC and reference that in
> your application.
>
> You *might *be able to get the app running by creating an assembly
> binding in the config file.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Matthias Buchetics <mbuchetics at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I just compiled Mono 3.0 on a Linux box (OpenSuse) but I am having
>> trouble getting Entity Framework to work. The Mono documentation (
>> http://www.mono-project.com/EntityFramework) is seriously lacking on
>> information about what version of EF is included, it simply says: "As of
>> Mono 2.11.3, Microsoft's open sourced EntityFramework is part of Mono's
>> distribution.".
>>
>> When I run my program I get this error:
>>
>> Could not load signature of
>> System.Data.Entity.Internal.InternalConnection:CreateObjectContextFromConnectionModel
>> due to:
>> Could not load signature of
>> System.Data.Entity.Internal.IInternalConnection:CreateObjectContextFromConnectionModel
>> due to:
>> ss 08:19:02,879 [SqlEventLogger] sql export error
>> System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type
>> 'System.Data.Entity.Internal.LazyInternalConnection' from assembly
>> 'EntityFramework, Version=4.4.0.0, Culture=neutral,
>> PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'.
>>   at AlVis.Sql.AlVisDbContext..ctor (System.String
>> nameOrConnectionString) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
>>
>> I then removed the EntityFramework.dll from the program's folder, now I
>> get this:
>>
>> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly
>> 'EntityFramework, Version=4.4.0.0, Culture=neutral,
>> PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies.
>> File name: 'EntityFramework, Version=4.4.0.0, Culture=neutral,
>> PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'
>>
>> I wasn't able to find any information about how to use EF with Mono
>> besides the news posts that it is now included.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Matthias
>>
>>
>>
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