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Does anyone know if code-first is supported, meaning no modeling via Visual Studio designer but doing modeling via the new CTPs? http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/ ... ement.aspx

I'm assuming this devart provides a driver but not sure how it's actually tied together.

We are in the process of testing the new Entity Framework CTP 4.
I will post here about the test results.

Any updates on the code-first EF CTP4 with dotConnect for Oracle?

I will post here about the results of our investigation as soon as possible.

I'm assuming you're still testing but just wanted to know how it's looking so far and if you have an approximate date? Just have a project against Oracle and wanted to know if at least the read-only stuff works with code-first.

I'm doing some testing myself and following --> http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/ ... abase.aspx


Can someone at least point me in the right direction? Which DevArt dlls should I reference? And if I follow something similar as the link above, how will it know to use DevArt's EF for Oracle and not Microsoft's. Please help out and I'll try this out myself and post back the results.

I have a really important and visible project and I need this bad.

Did everything per ScottGu's article using Devart's provider for Oracle and getting "DatabaseExists is not supported by the provider.". Guessing from the error the provider does not support this method. Any way to tell the framework may be not to use the method, bypass it?

Seems like I'm talking to myself here, but setting Database.SetInitializer to something that does nothing now bypasses this particular issue and now I'm getting table or view does not exist. Tried using the schema in .ToTable("Schema.View") and still the same. privileges seem to be fine.

In case it helps anyone. I got it working but it seems the schema/table names are case-sensitive. But it looks to be working as long as the initializer does nothing.

Many thanks for your help. We have finished our investigation.
The new build will contain some dummy implementation of the DatabaseExists method.
Unfortunately, the Database.SetInitializer workaround still will be necessary.
As for the case-sensitivity, it does matter in Oracle.

Thanks.