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

I have encountered the same problem and found the solution.

1. Remove EF references in the UI layer.
2. Remove EF references in the web.config
3. Just make sure to define the connection string

There! No more reference to EF in the UI layer, and the web page will still run. Use only EF in the data layer via repositories and unit of work pattern.

To summarize: Just do NOT install or nuget-install EntityFramework in the UI layer and it will work just fine.