Caution

This documentation is for EF Core. For EF6.x and earlier release see http://msdn.com/data/ef.

SQLite

This database provider allows Entity Framework Core to be used with SQLite. The provider is maintained as part of the EntityFramework GitHub project.

In this article:

Install

Install the Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SQLite NuGet package.

PM>  Install-Package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SQLite

Supported Database Engines

  • SQLite (3.7 onwards)

Supported Platforms

  • Full .NET (4.5.1 onwards)
  • .NET Core
  • Mono (4.2.0 onwards)
  • Universal Windows Platform

Limitations

See SQLite Limitations for some important limitations of the SQLite provider.