EntityFramework 6.5.1

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.NET 6.0 .NET Standard 2.1 .NET Framework 4.0

dotnet add package EntityFramework --version 6.5.1

NuGet\Install-Package EntityFramework -Version 6.5.1

This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package.

<PackageReference Include="EntityFramework" Version="6.5.1" />

For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package.

paket add EntityFramework --version 6.5.1

The NuGet Team does not provide support for this client. Please contact its maintainers for support.

#r "nuget: EntityFramework, 6.5.1"

#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package.

// Install EntityFramework as a Cake Addin
#addin nuget:?package=EntityFramework&version=6.5.1

// Install EntityFramework as a Cake Tool
#tool nuget:?package=EntityFramework&version=6.5.1

The NuGet Team does not provide support for this client. Please contact its maintainers for support.

Entity Framework 6

Entity Framework 6 (EF6) is a tried and tested object-relational mapper for .NET with many years of feature development and stabilization. It eliminates the need for most of the data-access code that developers usually need to write.

Status and Support

The latest version of EF6 is still supported by Microsoft--see Entity Framework Support Policies for details. However, EF6 is no longer being actively developed. This means that:

Security issues will be fixed, as for any supported product.
High-impact bugs, typically those impacting a very large number of users, may be fixed.
Other bugs will not be fixed.
New features will not be implemented

This plan focuses on stability of the codebase and compatibility of new versions above all else, excepting security. In general, the EF6 codebase is reliable and has been stable for several years with few significant bugs. However, due to the complexity and number of usage scenarios, and also the sheer number of applications that use EF6, any change has the potential to regress existing behaviors. This is why we will be making only security fixes. Also, we will not be accepting pull requests made by the community, again to ensure stability of the codebase.

Entity Framework Core

Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is a lightweight and extensible version of Entity Framework and continues to be actively developed on the EFCore GitHub repo. EF Core is developed exclusively for modern .NET and does not run on .NET Framework. EF Core includes many improvements and new features over EF6. EF Core has a different architecture to EF6 and takes a very different approach to its internals--for example, EF Core does not support a visual designer or EDMX files. However, most EF6 projects can be ported to EF Core with some amount of work--see Port from EF6 to EF Core for a guide.

Getting help

See the EF6 docs for installation, documentation, tutorials, samples, etc. This documentation is no longer being updated, but still contains useful and usable content.

The EF team is focusing efforts on EF Core, and hence team members are unlikely to respond to issues filed on this repo. We recommend asking questions on Stack Overflow.

You may instead choose to contact a Microsoft Support professional for support. Please note that this may incur a fee.

EF6 Tools for Visual Studio

The code for the EF6 Tools for VS (including the visual designer) can be found in the EF6Tools repo.

EF6 PowerTools

The EF6 PowerTools is a community-driven project with its own GitHub repo.

Product	Compatible and additional computed target framework versions.
.NET	net5.0 was computed. net5.0-windows was computed. net6.0 is compatible. net6.0-android was computed. net6.0-ios was computed. net6.0-maccatalyst was computed. net6.0-macos was computed. net6.0-tvos was computed. net6.0-windows was computed. net7.0 was computed. net7.0-android was computed. net7.0-ios was computed. net7.0-maccatalyst was computed. net7.0-macos was computed. net7.0-tvos was computed. net7.0-windows was computed. net8.0 was computed. net8.0-android was computed. net8.0-browser was computed. net8.0-ios was computed. net8.0-maccatalyst was computed. net8.0-macos was computed. net8.0-tvos was computed. net8.0-windows was computed.
.NET Core	netcoreapp3.0 was computed. netcoreapp3.1 was computed.
.NET Standard	netstandard2.1 is compatible.
.NET Framework	net40 is compatible. net403 was computed. net45 is compatible. net451 was computed. net452 was computed. net46 was computed. net461 was computed. net462 was computed. net463 was computed. net47 was computed. net471 was computed. net472 was computed. net48 was computed. net481 was computed.
MonoAndroid	monoandroid was computed.
MonoMac	monomac was computed.
MonoTouch	monotouch was computed.
Tizen	tizen60 was computed.
Xamarin.iOS	xamarinios was computed.
Xamarin.Mac	xamarinmac was computed.
Xamarin.TVOS	xamarintvos was computed.
Xamarin.WatchOS	xamarinwatchos was computed.

Compatible target framework(s)

Included target framework(s) (in package)

Learn more about Target Frameworks and .NET Standard.

.NETFramework 4.0
- No dependencies.
.NETFramework 4.5
- No dependencies.
.NETStandard 2.1
- Microsoft.CSharp (>= 4.7.0)
- System.CodeDom (>= 6.0.0)
- System.ComponentModel.Annotations (>= 5.0.0)
- System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager (>= 6.0.1)
- System.Data.SqlClient (>= 4.8.6)

NuGet packages (2.7K)

Showing the top 5 NuGet packages that depend on EntityFramework:

Package	Downloads
Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework ASP.NET Identity providers that use Entity Framework.	49.0M
LinqKit LinqKit.EntityFramework contains extensions for LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework. Include(...) and IAsync are supported.	26.9M
System.Data.SQLite.EF6 Support for Entity Framework 6 using System.Data.SQLite.	21.9M
Microsoft.AspNet.Providers.Core ASP.NET Universal Providers add provider support in ASP.NET 4 for all editions of SQL Server 2005 and later and to SQL Azure. If you use these providers to develop your application, the application will be ready for cloud environments like Azure. Other than supporting additional storage options, the providers work like the existing SQL-based providers, so that you can easily switch an application to use cloud storage via SQL Azure.	19.1M
Z.EntityFramework.Extensions Entity Framework Extensions extends your DbContext with high-performance bulk operations: BulkSaveChanges, BulkInsert, BulkUpdate, BulkDelete, BulkMerge, and more. Support: SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and more! Example: https://dotnetfiddle.net/awlJdf Benchmark: https://dotnetfiddle.net/35mQ0W Include free and prime features.	12.7M

GitHub repositories (371)

Showing the top 5 popular GitHub repositories that depend on EntityFramework:

Repository	Stars
DapperLib/Dapper Dapper - a simple object mapper for .Net	17.6K
dotnet/AspNetCore.Docs Documentation for ASP.NET Core	12.6K
aspnetboilerplate/aspnetboilerplate ASP.NET Boilerplate - Web Application Framework	11.8K
JeffreySu/WeiXinMPSDK 微信全平台 .NET SDK， Senparc.Weixin for C#，支持 .NET Framework 及 .NET Core、.NET 8.0。已支持微信公众号、小程序、小游戏、微信支付、企业微信/企业号、开放平台、JSSDK、微信周边等全平台。 WeChat SDK for C#.	8.5K
MassTransit/MassTransit Distributed Application Framework for .NET	7.0K

Version	Downloads	Last updated
6.5.1	2,168,698	6/17/2024
6.5.0	689,010	6/14/2024
6.5.0-preview2-24180-01	22,962	4/18/2024
6.4.4	68,885,122	5/12/2020
6.4.0	15,742,243	12/3/2019
6.4.0-preview3-19553-01	103,151	11/13/2019
6.4.0-preview2-19525-03	13,727	11/1/2019
6.4.0-preview1-19506-01	28,390	10/15/2019
6.3.0	24,220,142	9/23/2019
6.3.0-rc1-19458-04	8,865	9/16/2019
6.3.0-preview9-19423-04	14,538	9/4/2019
6.3.0-preview8-19405-04	49,245	8/13/2019
6.3.0-preview7-19363-02	95,355	7/23/2019
6.3.0-preview6-19304-03	56,259	6/12/2019
6.3.0-preview5-19254-05	44,881	5/7/2019
6.2.0	54,237,364	10/26/2017
6.2.0-beta1	267,892	5/19/2017
6.1.3	63,643,826	3/10/2015
6.1.3-beta1	361,876	2/11/2015
6.1.2	4,292,121	12/22/2014
6.1.2-beta2	84,897	11/14/2014
6.1.2-beta1	174,887	9/18/2014
6.1.1	8,508,004	6/20/2014
6.1.1-beta1	82,108	5/20/2014
6.1.0	11,603,852	3/17/2014
6.1.0-beta1	105,153	2/11/2014
6.1.0-alpha1	98,228	12/20/2013
6.0.2	3,933,366	12/13/2013
6.0.2-beta1	78,358	11/27/2013
6.0.1	2,198,714	10/17/2013
6.0.0	14,919,721	10/17/2013
6.0.0-rc1	135,329	8/21/2013
6.0.0-beta1	153,902	5/28/2013
6.0.0-alpha3	83,471	2/25/2013
6.0.0-alpha2	77,465	12/10/2012
6.0.0-alpha1	66,081	10/25/2012
5.0.0	16,154,281	8/11/2012
5.0.0-rc	221,074	5/15/2012
5.0.0-beta2	40,953	3/22/2012
5.0.0-beta1	79,457	2/29/2012
4.3.1	995,655	2/29/2012
4.3.0	186,699	2/9/2012
4.3.0-beta1	25,989	1/13/2012
4.2.0	569,513	11/1/2011
4.1.10715	961,630	7/25/2011
4.1.10331	1,365,692	4/12/2011