Move EF6, EF5, and EF4.3.1 API reference to Docs

[divega]

The API references for the non-core versions of the NuGet package should be part of the .NET API Browser. I talked to @dend and apparently they can be hosted in this repo.

To have complete coverage we discussed having the API reference generated for the following EntityFramework package versions:

• https://www.nuget.org/packages/EntityFramework/6.2.0
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/EntityFramework/5.0.0
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/EntityFramework/4.3.1

Current locations which need to be redirected

• EF6

  • https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dn223258(v=vs.113).aspx (our conceptual docs point here)
  • https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt154346(v=vs.113).aspx (duplicate)

• EF5

  • https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh289362(v=vs.103).aspx

[divega]

@sudeepku you can close this issue as fixed once you finish with publishing the new API docs and the redirects.

Also, remember to let me know when it is done so I can update the links in our conceptual doc pages.

[divega]

The API reference of EF 6 at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/?view=entity-framework-6.2.0, but other versions are still empty:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/?view=entity-framework-5.0.0

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/?view=entity-framework-4.3.1

Also the redirects on the old API references on MSDN are still needed.

cc @dend @Sampy @sudeepku

[divega]

@dendeli-msft @sudeepku @Sampy, FYI, EF 5.0.0 and 4.3.1 APIs are still missing in the API browser.

[Sampy]

Looking at the contents of the live branch, I don't see any files in the FrameworksIndex folder for any version other than 6. You can see this on docs itself if you go to a page for entity framework and try to change the version for example: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.data.entity?view=entity-framework-6.2.0. Unless System.Data.Entity is only defined in 6.2.0 and I picked a bad page, this means no part of docs knows about any version other than 6.2.0 since this repo doesn't define documentation for those versions.

The problem is deeper than the API Browser not showing them. Docs currently only has pages for the 6.2.0 release it seems.

[mairaw]

I only see 6.2 in the FrameworksIndex folder as well:
https://github.com/aspnet/EntityFramework.ApiDocs/tree/live/EF/xml/FrameworksIndex

Probably the other monikers shouldn't be live until the content is there.

[smitpatel]

Tagging @ajcvickers

We have docs for EF 6.2/5.0/4.3.1 & SqlCompact for 6.2 only. (files here https://github.com/aspnet/EntityFramework.ApiDocs/tree/live/EF/xml/FrameworksIndex)

From

Current locations which need to be redirected
EF6
https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dn223258(v=vs.113).aspx (our conceptual docs point here)
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt154346(v=vs.113).aspx (duplicate)
EF5
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh289362(v=vs.103).aspx

First link is 404.
2nd redirects correctly
3rd still points to MSDN docs.

Also should we publish docs for EF 6.3?

[mairaw]

What are the targets for 1st and 3rd? I can work with you offline with the team that is handling redirections.