Why do I have to reference EF in my UI project?

Question

Isn\'t there a more graceful way to have Entity Framework deployed with your UI project (specifically the sql server driver for EF: EntityFramework.SqlServer.dll) deployed w

Answer 1

Explanation of issue(s) with EF configuration in multi project solution is here:
EntityFramework.SqlServer (or other providers) not being copied locally
It perfect explain me the reasons, but I found better workaround:
I have a solution with UI project and DAL project.
To not reference EF dll's in UI project I have done:.
1) removed it from UI project references.
2) add post-build event to UI project:

if $(ConfigurationName) == Debug (
copy $(SolutionDir)\DBWrapper\Bin\Debug\EntityFramework.SqlServer.dll $(SolutionDir)\IrregularVerbs\Bin\Debug\
)
else if $(ConfigurationName) == Release (
copy $(SolutionDir)\DBWrapper\Bin\Release\EntityFramework.SqlServer.dll $(SolutionDir)\IrregularVerbs\Bin\Release\
)

the "(" char must be in the same line as "if" - in other way you get error:
Error 2 The command "..." exited with code 255.