Daniel Little

@smoothdeveloper ah great, of course!

@smoothdeveloper I don't know much about how to implement type providers or how much time I have at the moment but I'm open to helping out if I can.

@smoothdeveloper ok, point me to anything you think would be helpful, I'll see what I can do.

I've been looking a bit more at this, so a bit of an update There are at least two dependencies that fail in a netstandard type provider: **System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager** This package...

@smoothdeveloper I agree minimising disruption is a good approach. Although I've decided to get it working first then see how we can merge the two. I've also discovered `Microsoft.Data.SqlClient` depends...

After searching around for way too long I haven't found any hope or lead for loading the non-reference assembly in netstandard. However, it looks like type providers support `netcoreapp` https://github.com/fsprojects/FSharp.TypeProviders.SDK/issues/328...

@samhanes I mentioned NetTopologySuite which EF uses for spatial types https://github.com/fsprojects/FSharp.Data.SqlClient/issues/374#issuecomment-631378011

I might try and pick this back up again, I was never able to get past the runtime errors after getting it to compile against `Microsoft.Data.SqlClient` but it's probably time...

I'm trying to find information on if Type Providers, particularly the DesignTime project, can target netcoreapp instead of netstandard. Because the some assemblies load the reference assembly instead of the...

I've written up more about what I've tried and the issue I'm having with loading reference assemblies here https://github.com/fsprojects/FSharp.Data.SqlClient/pull/375#issuecomment-817032528