Oracle ODP.Net With Entity Framework 6 - Entity framework database compatible provider could not be found

Question

I am trying to build an MVC 5 Web application with Entity Framework 6 that works on Oracle Database , am trying to use ODAC 12c Release 3 which includes support for Entity F

Answer 1

I finally was able to to use ODP with EF6.

I did the following to make it work :-

First Installing ODAC 12c Release 3 which includes support for Entity Framework 6 Code First and Code First Migrations; NuGet, .NET Framework 4.5.2; and ODP.NET, Managed Driver XML DB. As per

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/dotnet/whatsnew/index.html

Adding two references , to my project references and they are :

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.dll

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.EntityFramework.dll

Installing EF6.1.1 using NuGet by running the following command in Package Manager Console( you can enter it by Tools->NuGet Package Manager -> Package Manager Console):

Install-Package EntityFramework -Version 6.1.1

And modify your web.config or web.config to use Oracle.ManagedDataAccess , by adding Provider and a valid connection string eg :

Rebuild your Application as x86, and start using EF6 , you can check if it works by adding a model using ADO.Net Entity Model using Code First