Re: Asp.net 5 and EF6

On 02/04/2016 09:52 AM, FarjadFarid(ChkNet) wrote:
>
> I am not using EF7. It is actually EF6 under full .net 5

Your previous post seemed to be referring to these instructions:

http://www.npgsql.org/doc/ef7.html

which would indicate you are using EF7, and as John pointed out, so does
the error message.

FYI there is an issue that is tracking EF7 support:

https://github.com/npgsql/npgsql/issues/249

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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrian Klaver [mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com]
> Sent: 04 February 2016 17:29
> To: FarjadFarid(ChkNet); pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Asp.net 5 and EF6
>
> On 02/04/2016 09:18 AM, FarjadFarid(ChkNet) wrote:
>> I have looked the Npgsql website and downloaded the EF7 files. Of
>> course the full .net core.
>
> Alright now I am not following, in your original post you said:
>
> "Hi I am trying to use certain features of Asp.net 5 using postgresql using
> EF6."
>
> and
>
> "So I would have thought as an interim measure until EF7 is ready which will
> be quite some time to come, it should be possible to connect to postgresql
> using EF6. "
>
> So why are you using the EF7 files?
>
>>
>> The problem *seems* to be that there are two separate libraries that
>> need to be added.
>>
>> One is EF related and the other is the Npgsql wrapper.
>> Unfortunately the Nuget installer is not working correctly either.
>>
>> The main error seems to be in the submitted version of the libraries
>> and build version.
>>
>> The error is
>> NU1007 Dependency specified was EntityFramework7.Npgsql >=1.0.0 but
>> ended with EntityFramework7.Npgsql 1.0.0
>>
>> Npgsql namespace is installed but not the entity framework.
>>
>> It looks as if EF7 will be released much later than asp.net 5. So a
>> lot of time could be lost in the middle.
>>
>> Current suggested workaround for all DB's solution is to use EF6 under
>> a separate .net project.
>>
>> Any suggestion?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Adrian Klaver [mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com]
>> Sent: 04 February 2016 17:00
>> To: FarjadFarid(ChkNet); pgsql-general@postgresql.org
>> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Asp.net 5 and EF6
>>
>> On 02/04/2016 08:46 AM, FarjadFarid(ChkNet) wrote:
>>> Hi I am trying to use certain features of Asp.net 5 using postgresql
>>> using EF6.
>>>
>>> I have downloaded the latest unstable version of npgsql and tried to
>>> connect to my db.
>>>
>>> But no luck.
>> I am not a nppsql user, so some generic question.
>>
>> Can you explain in more detail what the errors are?
>>
>>>
>>> I have posted a request to stackoverflow.com but haven't had any
>>> response at all.
>>>
>>> It is easy to connect to Sql Server using EF6 under asp.net 5.
>>>
>>> So I would have thought as an interim measure until EF7 is ready
>>> which will be quite some time to come,
>>>
>>> it should be possible to connect to postgresql using EF6.
>>
>> Have you looked here?:
>>
>> http://www.npgsql.org/doc/ef6.html
>>
>>>
>>> Any ideas how?
>>>
>>> Many thanks.
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Adrian Klaver
>> adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
>>
>>
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> Adrian Klaver
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