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tamikoon
tamikoon

Reputation: 727

Is it possible to wrap entity framework to odbc?

HI I have this MVC4 internet application that have to access to the postgres server. I'm lack of budget so cannot afford commercial ado.net driver for postgres server. I had a look on npgsql but unfortunately it does not support entity framework 5. So I was wondering is that possible to wrap ado.net connection string as ODBC? If it's possible? does it also possible to use entity framework with that? please give me some advice. Thank you

Upvotes: 1

Views: 413

Answers (1)

Alexandre Rondeau
Alexandre Rondeau

Reputation: 2687

No you can't

You can get a detailed explanation there Why doesn't EntityFramework support ODBC

Under a 100$ you can get some nice commercial ADO.Net drivers. Personally I've used dotConnect (For SQLite) but probably that their ProgreSQL package must be as good. You should give it a look. Also they have a 200$ license that can do ODBC.

Upvotes: 2

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