Does Unity support dotnetcore?

Does Unity support dotnetcore?

If it supports dotnetcore which is the latest version of dotnetcore that is supported.

I understand the UI stuff will not be supported possibly as that makes no sense to support.

For example would System.Data.SqlClient work? If so would EntityFrameworkCore work? Non UI stuff?

If Unity does not support dotnetcore and still only supports mono are there any plans to move to dotnetcore?

If there are plans to support dotnetcore what would be the expected timeline?

Reason I am asking is I want to know when and if to jump into Unity for my main development environment for everything I do. Unity is a GUI like any other system but it is the ultimate GUI system and if it can support dotnetcore then it can replace all GUI for even business applications is what I thought in 2009 when I bought a licence for the iPhone dev version.

 

Unity uses the .net framework and mono to compile across platforms.
System.Data.SqlClient is supported both in core and framework. Same as EF. EF has a core version for .net core. But also has a version for .net framework.
So... Apart from a very few amount of functions, the .net framework will do all that core can do.

It sounds like your an app developer rather than a game developor. But just a heads up, while Unity has a great UI system. It does not behave like say a WinForms application. As a whole Unity utilizes the Update method and for an application, than can be allot more expensive comparably.

It is possible though. I have done it. https://harley-torrisi.itch.io/assetcat

 

Thanks Harley John Torrisi.

 

That's really cool! Did you make that primarily using UGUI?

 

Hey, made entirely of the unity UI system. For the affects I used unity’s animation system to create transition/fade effects

 

My version of Unity is 2020.1.6f1.

I tried a bunch of stuff and it all failed. I have set in Build Settings > Player Settings > Player > Other Settings > Configuration > { Scripting Backend is set to Mono; Api Compatibility Level is set to .NET Standard 2.0 }

I have downloaded the 4.7.0 Nuget Package for System.Data.SqlClient and put the .dll in the Assets folder. Got the following error:

PlatformNotSupportedException: System.Data.SqlClient is not supported on this platform.
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection..ctor (System.String connectionString) (at <29d91afc22d845f581544c433b4118d7>:0)
(wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection..ctor(string)
test.OnRuntimeMethodLoad () (at Assets/Scripts/test.cs:23)


I have tried with all the versions of it. Also tried to put Api Compatibility Level to .NET 4.x and nothing works.

Can you give me any detailed instructions or point me to some link that gives me the details on how to make it work.

 

I got it working with the dll's from Nuget Package Microsoft.Data.SqlClient. I also set my Unity Api Compatibility Level to .NET 4.x. Now it works fine.

 

Learned from the first experience of getting it to work with .Net 4.x of getting Unity to talk to SQL Server 2019.

It is a versioning nightmare as I thought from the start. Need to pick the right DLL's from the Nuget package directory.

I picked the correct DLL's this time and NetStandard 2.0 is also, in a separate Unity project, is working too.

Took many hours of trying many different combinations.

This issue is now resolved.

 

Hello akshays, could you please tell me which release version of Microsoft.Data.SqlClient package from Nuget worked for you? I've been trying different versions for 5 hours now without a luck. Would really really appreciate it if you could let me know. Thank you!!

 

What are you current settings of you project, both the target framework and build pipeline?