Closed Issue: EF provider type names should include full assembly information [1077]

Currently assembly-qualified like this:

> System.Data.Entity.SqlServer.SqlProviderServices, EntityFramework.SqlServer

are used to load the EF provider, either by convention or when specified in the config. This does not work when the EF assemblies are GAC'ed. Instead full assembly information must be used:

> System.Data.Entity.SqlServer.SqlProviderServices, EntityFramework.SqlServer, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089

We never GAC the EF assemblies and we recommend that they are bin-deployed, but we cannot prevent people from putting the assemblies in the GAC.
Comments: Verified fixed