If you must use the EntityFramework I can't really suggest much (I don't know it). But I access my VFP database (tables with .DBC) from an ASP.NET application by way of calling VFP Stored Procedures. So, as an alternative, you may consider this approach too.
>Hi Paul. Thanks for replying.
>
>All the documentation I've seen re VfpEntityFrameworkprovider mentions 'Free Tables'
>Just want to check that it definitely works with Tables in a .DBC ?
>Regards,
>Gerard
>
>
>>>Hi.
>>>I've been playing around with MVC4, and now want to access VFP data (MVC4 uses Entity Framework for this)
>>>I cannot see any options for VFp when creating the EF data
>>>Seen some stuff about VfpEntityFrameworkProvider (In Codeplex) but it seems to be only in alpha and does not seem to support DBF files which are part of a DBC.(Does indicate that free tables are supported)
>>>
>>>Has anybody used MVC with VFP data and is there a standard Microsoft way of doing this, or if not, any third pary products
>>>
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>>The VfpEntityFrameworkProvider works fine with free tables and tables that are part of a DBC.
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