Does Entity Framework 6 support .Net 3.5?

Question

Does Entity Framework 6 support .Net 3.5?

(EF 6 is still in beta at the time of this writing.)

The documentation shows many benefits, performance and otherwise, when using .Net 4.5, but I cannot find a 'minimum requirements' page.

Answer 1

On the right hand side of the EF6 Roadmap page on CodePlex it says that .Net 4.0 is the System Requirement. Furthermore, when reviewing the csproj files associated with EF6, it appears that only 4.0 and 4.5 are supplied as targets:

    ...
    <CodeAnalysisRuleSet>..\Strict.ruleset</CodeAnalysisRuleSet>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Release|AnyCPU' ">
    <TargetFrameworkVersion>v4.5</TargetFrameworkVersion>
    ...
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'DebugNet40|AnyCPU' ">
    <TargetFrameworkVersion>v4.0</TargetFrameworkVersion>
    ...

In light of this I would say the answer is No: EF6 does not support .Net 3.5.