Mono: Entity Framework – System.Data.Entity.Core.ProviderIncompatibleException was thrown
Recently I have been playing with Entity Framework on Linux using Mono and my database server is MS SQL 2014. When I attempt to add an entity I receive the “System.Data.Entity.Core.ProviderIncompatibleException was thrown” exception and the following message was displayed:
An error occurred accessing the database. This usually means that the connection to the database failed. Check that the connection string is correct and that the appropriate DbContext constructor is being used to specify it or find it in the application’s config file. See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=386386 for information on DbContext and connections. See the inner exception for details of the failure.
So I did some further investigation online and found the following post on how to work around it: