Entity Framework Support

The ADO.NET Entity Framework provides a model for mapping objects to data and extends the ADO.NET Data Providers. Advantage has implemented an Entity Framework Data Provider to facilitate use of the Entity Framework.

Provider Namespace Name

Entity Framework Data Providers are required to specify a namespace. The namespace for the Advantage Database Server Entity Framework Data provider is Advantage.

Types

The Advantage Entity Framework maps Entity Data Model (EDM) types to Advantage Database Server types in the following manner:

Provider type name	EDM type name
Character	String
CICharacter	String
Memo	String
VarChar	String
NChar	String
NMemo	String
NVarChar	String
Date	DateTime
Time	Time
TimeStamp	DateTime
ModTime	DateTime
Logical	Boolean
ShortInt	Int16
Integer	Int32
AutoIncrement	Int32
Money	Decimal
Numeric	Decimal
Double	Double
CurDouble	Double
RowVersion	Binary
Raw	Binary
VarBinary	Binary
Binary	Binary
Image	Binary