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I was wondering about the use of the .NET entity framework with an embedded database solution. Right now, I only use the EF with SQL Server but for a new project I’m looking for alternate solutions. SQL Server Compact would be one solution, but are there other alternatives that I can use with EF? Preferably solutions that don’t require complex installations?
The actual (although not the full one) list of ADO.NET Entity Framework providers is available here.
There is a couple of providers supporting Embedded MySQL – dotConnect for MySQL and MySQL Connector/NET and SQLite – dotConnect for SQLite and System.Data.SQLite.