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DatabaseFacade.ProviderName Property

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Definition

Namespace:
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Infrastructure
Assembly:
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.dll
Package:
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore v2.0.3
Package:
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore v2.1.11
Package:
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore v2.2.6
Package:
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore v3.0.0
Package:
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore v3.1.0
Package:
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore v5.0.0
Package:
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore v6.0.0
Package:
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore v7.0.0
Package:
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore v8.0.0

Returns the name of the database provider currently in use. The name is typically the name of the provider assembly. It is usually easier to use a sugar method such as Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServerDatabaseFacadeExtensions.IsSqlServer instead of calling this method directly.

public virtual string ProviderName { get; }
public virtual string? ProviderName { get; }
member this.ProviderName : string
Public Overridable ReadOnly Property ProviderName As String

Property Value

String

Remarks

This method can only be used after the DbContext has been configured because it is only then that the provider is known. This means that this method cannot be used in OnConfiguring(DbContextOptionsBuilder) because this is where application code sets the provider to use as part of configuring the context.

See DbContext lifetime, configuration, and initialization for more information and examples.

Applies to