No Entity Framework provider found for 'MySql.Data.MySqlClient' ADO.NET provider

Question

I\'m trying to use Entity Framework with MySQL and I get the above error. I have the latest MySQL connector installed.

The full error reads:

No Entit         


        

Answer 1

I've updated from EntityFramework 5.0 to 6.1 and MySQL connector 6.8.3 and only had to add the attribute to get things going again. Before adding the attribute everything would compile fine but crash at runtime.

[DbConfigurationType(typeof(MySql.Data.Entity.MySqlEFConfiguration))]
public class DemoContext : DbContext{}