Is there an in-memory provider for Entity Framework?

Question

I am unit testing code written against the ADO .NET Entity Framework. I would like to populate an in-memory database with rows, and make sure that my code retrieves them pro

Answer 1

You could try SQL Server Compact but it has some quite wild limitations:

• SQL Server Compact does not support SKIP expressions in paging queries when it is used with the Entity Framework
• SQL Server Compact does not support entities with server-generated keys or values when it is used with the Entity Framework
• No outer joins, collate, modulo on floats, aggregates