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Dan Sorensen
Dan Sorensen

Reputation: 11753

Does Entity Framework 6 support .Net 3.5?

Does Entity Framework 6 support .Net 3.5?

(EF 6 is still in beta at the time of this writing.)

The documentation shows many benefits, performance and otherwise, when using .Net 4.5, but I cannot find a 'minimum requirements' page.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 3087

Answers (1)

user7116
user7116

Reputation: 64118

On the right hand side of the EF6 Roadmap page on CodePlex it says that .Net 4.0 is the System Requirement. Furthermore, when reviewing the csproj files associated with EF6, it appears that only 4.0 and 4.5 are supplied as targets:

    ...
    <CodeAnalysisRuleSet>..\Strict.ruleset</CodeAnalysisRuleSet>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Release|AnyCPU' ">
    <TargetFrameworkVersion>v4.5</TargetFrameworkVersion>
    ...
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'DebugNet40|AnyCPU' ">
    <TargetFrameworkVersion>v4.0</TargetFrameworkVersion>
    ...

In light of this I would say the answer is No: EF6 does not support .Net 3.5.

Upvotes: 9

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