Entity Framework 6.* provider

[Former Member]

It has been a long time since Entity Framework 6 has been released. Any ideas on when we will finally get a working EF6 Provider? Having to wait for such a trivial thing like porting a working EF5 provider to EF6.* for over half a year is really disappointing.

[Former Member]

We are currently working on EF6 support for SQLA. Don't have a timeframe yet, but hopefully soon. For the benefit of others, I'll reply to this thread when our EF6 support is available.

[Former Member]

Come on guys. It has been 10 Month now since EF6 was released. If you don’t want to support EF6.* just say it.

“Planning” to support it for over 10 Month is ridiculous, especially when you see other companies updating their provider within weeks.

[Former Member]

We are very close to completing our support for EF6. Once this is done, I will post a message in the forum indicating its availability. Thanks for your patience.

[Former Member]

The SAP developer site provides a download for EBF 4134 ... How can we get our hands on EBF 4142?

[jeff_albion]

Hello sbhyde,

For information about how to obtain current Support Packages for SQL Anywhere, see my answer here. If you don't have an older Sybase support agreement to access the older Sybase EBF site, you will need to have a current SAP support agreement in order to obtain access.

[Former Member]

I performed all the steps in the above message and STILL had the problem. I finally stumbled on the following fix on another forum (stackoverflow) and wanted to add the fix to this posting in the hope I save some poor soul the the lost time I experienced.

Note: This fix is for version 17. The fix for 12 or 16 would be the same with appropriate references changed.

You must replace the entity framework section in app.config (web.config) with the following (remove blank lines)...

<system.data>

<DbProviderFactories>

  <clear />

  <add name="SQL Anywhere 17 Data Provider" invariant="Sap.Data.SQLAnywhere" description=".Net Framework Data Provider for SQL Anywhere 17" type="Sap.Data.SQLAnywhere.SAFactory, Sap.Data.SQLAnywhere.EF6, Version=17.0.0.10094, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=f222fc4333e0d400" />

</DbProviderFactories>

</system.data>

<entityframework>

<defaultConnectionFactory type="Sap.Data.SQLAnywhere.SAConnectionFactory, Sap.Data.SQLAnywhere.EF6, Version=17.0.0.10094, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=f222fc4333e0d400">

</defaultConnectionFactory>

<providers>

  <provider invariantName="Sap.Data.SQLAnywhere" type="Sap.Data.SQLAnywhere.SAProviderServices, Sap.Data.SQLAnywhere.EF6, Version=17.0.0.10094, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=f222fc4333e0d400" />

</providers>

</entityframework>