Enable Entity Framework 6 for MySQL (C#) in Winforms of Microsoft Visual Studio 2013

Enable Entity Framework 6 for MySql (C#) in WinForms of Microsoft Visual Studio 2013

First of all, we don't even need to install the mysql-installer-community-5.7.3.0-m13.msi.

1. Install the latest mysql-visualstudio-plugin
2. Install the latest mysql-connector-net
3. New C# .Net 4.5 Framework WinForms (for 4.0 it should work based on Does Entity Framework 6 support .NET 4.0? )
4. Install 4 Nuget Packages (follow sequence, if you install Mysql.Data.Entities before EntityFramework, it will resolve dependency and install EntityFramework 6.0.2 but what we need is EntityFramework 6.1.0)

EntityFramework

Mysql.Data

Mysql.Data.Entities

Mysql.Web

5.If you have tag entityFramework in App.config, please comment it and insert new tag entityFramework in App.config after tag startup

  <entityFramework>
    <defaultConnectionFactory type="MySql.Data.Entity.MySqlConnectionFactory, MySql.Data.Entity.EF6" />
    <providers>
      <provider invariantName="MySql.Data.MySqlClient" type="MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlProviderServices, MySql.Data.Entity.EF6" />
    </providers>
  </entityFramework>

6.Add ADO.NET Entity Data Model (as mentioned in question)

7.After Entity Connection string is generated (as mentioned in question) and Tick Save entity connection settings in App.Config as then click Next

8.Choose Your Database Object and Settings (Tables, Views, or Stored Procedures and Functions) (Don't have "Which version of Entity Framework do you want to use?" because I have only one Entity Framework 6.0 provider so direct skip the selection if my only provider is valid)

9.Finish

Congratulations ^^

By the way, you may need to add the .dll files

• MySql.Data.dll
• MySql.Data.Entity.EF6.dll
• MySql.Web.dll

inside this folder

C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Connector Net 6.8.3\Assemblies\v4.5
(32bit windows)

C:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\MySQL Connector Net 6.8.3\Assemblies\v4.5
(64bit windows)

as your project reference for further EF6 functions.

MySQL Connector with EF6 in Visual Studio 2013

Basic solution is to reinstall MySQL and VisualStudio including Entity and .NET.

For some reason, I am not certain why, the installation process corrupts the DLLs, or at least that is the experience I had and other colleagues. Our solution has been to try all of above with to no avail. So in the end we tried to reinstall, and it worked. So try that :)

Could not connect to MySQL through EF6 in Visual Studio 2013

This worked for me WITHOUT reinstalling the Visual Studio or anything what so ever.

• installed latest MySQL visual studio plugin and MySQL connector net
• removed the entityFramework Tag in App.config or Web.config and all its child tags.
• replaced it with the following code:

<entityFramework>
<defaultConnectionFactory type="MySql.Data.Entity.MySqlConnectionFactory, MySql.Data.Entity.EF6" />
<providers>
<provider invariantName="MySql.Data.MySqlClient" type="MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlProviderServices, MySql.Data.Entity.EF6" />
<provider invariantName="System.Data.SqlClient" type="System.Data.Entity.SqlServer.SqlProviderServices, EntityFramework.SqlServer" />
</providers>
</entityFramework>

Adding ADO.Net Entity Framework gives The project's target framework does not contain Entity Framework runtime assemblies

I know that almost all the other answers recommends to change the target framework, but some users (including me) needs to use .NET 6.0 instead of .NET Framework, so that solution its not valid for us.

I was able to create the models by using Paul Sinnema's link and using SQL authentication instead of Windows Auth (in my case):

You will need to install the following packages from NuGet:

Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools 

Afted that run the following command in the Package Manager Console:
(Tools>Nuget Package Manager>Package Manager Console)

PM> Scaffold-DbContext "Server=.\LOCAL_SERVER;User ID=YOUR_DB_USER;Password=YOUR_DB_PASSWORD;Database=YOUR_DATABASE;Trusted_Connection=False;" Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer -OutputDir Models

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