Runtime: Will EF7 support UWP with SQL server when released?

[jasondjelinek]

I originally posted this question to the entity framework github repo and they said it should work, but was dependent on the SqlClient (the ADO.NET provider for SQL Server). Can you tell me if there are plans to have SqlClient compatible with UWP? If so what is the estimated timeline. @YoungGah @saurabh500

Original question with EF team's answers
https://github.com/aspnet/EntityFramework/issues/4692

Thanks,

Jason

[Mogikan]

Any updates?

[danmosemsft]

This is being discussed. Sorry for the radio silence.

[naster01]

Any feedback? This issue is breaking my UWP desktop app as I require SqlClient. Why can't we just have direct access to the CoreFx from UWP? Can anybody point me to the UWP's team or the open source repo to get lastest updates? Thx @terrajobst

[danmosemsft]

@divega @saurabh500 anything you can share here?

[divega]

EF Core has been running on UWP since 1.0 but with some limitations and issues caused by differences in the .NET Native runtime. We track the specific issues at https://github.com/aspnet/entityframework/issues/.

EF Core 2.0 now targets .NET Standard 2.0 (you can find more details at https://github.com/aspnet/Announcements/issues/246), which means it won't work in UWP until the next version of UWP which will come with support for .NET Standard 2.0 is released.

From the SqlClient side of the question, I think @saurabh500 can provide more details, but my understanding is that there has been some work to enable that scenario. Once there is a version of SqlClient that works in UWP I see no reason it wouldn't work with EF Core.

[danmosemsft]

@saurabh500 can you comment? Who would own testing EF Core against UWP2.0?
Maybe this issue can be closed out.

[saurabh500]

We are working risers supporting SqlClient on UWP . EF should take a first stab at testing

[divega]

Thanks @saurabh500 for confirming. @danmosemsft I think this can be closed since the original question has been answered. Any testing work or specific bugs that may affect the end-to-end scenario will be tracked elsewhere.

[danmosemsft]

OK!