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 <monofo...@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 <li...@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, 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 <monofo...@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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-devel-list mailing list > Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-devel-list mailing list > Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
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