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title	description	author	ms.date	uid
SQLite Database Provider - EF Core	Information on the Entity Framework Core SQLite database provider	bricelam	10/27/2016	core/providers/sqlite/index

SQLite EF Core Database Provider

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

Install

Install the Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Sqlite NuGet package.

.NET Core CLI

dotnet add package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Sqlite

Visual Studio

Install-Package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Sqlite

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Supported Database Engines

• SQLite (3.7 onwards)

Limitations

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