No Entity Framework provider found for the ADO.NET provider with invariant name 'System.Data.SqlServerCe.4.0'

Question

I got the following error when I used sqlce 4.0 with entityframework 6.0

No Entity Framework provider found for the ADO.NET provider with invariant name \'Sy         


        

Answer 1

I met the issue in my unit tests. The tricky thing was that the error had appeared not constantly. I managed to solve it by adding the follwing class my my unit tests solution:

public static class Trick
{
    public static void FixEfProviderServicesProblem()
    {
        // this commented line should be used for SQL Server provider
        //var instance = System.Data.Entity.SqlServer.SqlProviderServices.Instance;

        // this is used for SQL Server CE provider
        var instance = System.Data.Entity.SqlServerCompact.SqlCeProviderServices.Instance;
    }
}