Can EntityFramework connect to any data provider?

Question

We have a data source accessible from an XML RPC web service where we can send CRUD commands.

Is it possible to use this with EF ?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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No unless you write your own provider. EF has very limited set of providers available. All these providers targets relational databases.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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answered Dec 07 '11 at 19:38

Ladislav Mrnka

Is is possible to write a provider? I mean, for someone outside Microsoft. Is there any docs available? How feasible would it be? – Stécy Dec 07 '11 at 19:52
It is a lot of work and it will probably not work because EF provider targets database and works with ADO.NET classes like DbCommand, DbConnection, etc. – Ladislav Mrnka Dec 07 '11 at 20:09

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