Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 6.10.1 (2017-02-22, Beta)

Known limitations of this release:

• The output classes cannot exist prior to using the EF Core database first feature.

• The target database must have a table with a primary key.

• The target database cannot contain one or more views.

• The JSON data exchange format is not supported by the EF Core database first feature.

• No error message is provided when a table given as input does not exist in the database and a model context is created without any table by the EF Core database first feature.

• The EF Core database first feature does not support the following data types:

  • BINARY

  • VARBINARY

  • MEDIUMBLOB

  • LONGBLOB

  • SET

  • DATE

  • TIME

  • YEAR

• DbContext within an application can emit an unhandled exception. Due to this limitation, MySQL Connector/NET 6.9.9 is the preferred version to use with EF6.

This release includes the following new functionality and bug fixes:

• Functionality Added or Changed

• Bugs Fixed

Functionality Added or Changed

• Added database first support, also known as Scaffold-DbContext, which enables the creation of corresponding model classes from an existing database that are compatible with Entity Framework (EF) Core 1.1. (WL #10301)

Bugs Fixed

• EF Core: Using the Contains method in an expression with a variable generated an exception. (Bug #25394204, Bug #84505)

• EF Core: Using the Skip and Take methods in an assignment generated an exception. (Bug #25382036, Bug #84453)