Conventions Roadmap for EF7

Entity Framework 6: Right usage of "Custom Code First Conventions" Feature?

My requirement is configuing the string length mapping globally, but also can use MaxLengthAttribute to configue a property specially. Here's my code:...public class StringLengthConvention : IConfigurationConvention<PropertyInfo, StringPropertyConfiguration> { public void Apply( PropertyInfo propertyInfo, Func<StringPropertyConf...

How do I remove underscore of foreign key fields in code first by convention

I finally found an answer for this, by writing a custom convention. This convention works in EF 6.0 RC1 (code from last week), so I think it's likely to continue to work after EF 6.0 is released....With this approach, the standard EF conventions identify the independent associations (IAs), and then create the EdmProperty for the foreign key field....

How to change the naming convention of Many-to-Many table relationships?

How can I go about changing the naming convention of the auto-generated many-to-many table?...Assume I have two classes:...public class User { public int UserId { get; set; } public virtual List<Role> Roles { get; set; } } public class Role { public int RoleId { get; set; } public virtual List<User> Users { get; set; } } ...By Defa...

Conventions for joins in Entity Framework 6.1.0 Code First

I believe my question is simple (not sure if the answer is as well):...Does anybody know how to force Entity Framework to use "INNER JOIN" as default convention, instead of "LEFT OUTER JOIN"?

Entity Framework 6 Database-First and Foriegn Key Naming Conventions

We've started using EF6 as part of rewriting our application suite. There are many perfectly reasonable tables in the existing suite and we're reusing them using a database-first approach. My problem is that EF6 seems to be enforcing what I think are code-first conventions on my database-first model....Consider this minimal example with two tables...

Entity Framework complex type's columns naming convention

Using complex types the default column naming convention uses underscore. That means having type defined that way: ...[ColmplexType] public class Contact { string Email {get;set;} string Post {get;set;} } public EntityN { //... public Contact Contact {get;set;} } ...we will get columns named such way...Contact_Email nvarchar(max) C...

.net core entity framework (EF Core) table naming convention

In short...Extend ModelBuilder with an extension method, do some regex, and call the method in you DbContext ...In Detail...Create an extension for ...ModelBuilder... class...public static class ModelBuilderExtensions { public static void SetSimpleUnderscoreTableNameConvention(this ModelBuilder modelBuilder) { foreach (IMutableEnti...

How to disable conventions in Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore?

I'm using SQLite with EFCore, but I got a problem... how can I disable Conventions like Pluralize? Is it possible?...My ModelBuilder has not a property Conventions... ...protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder) { modelBuilder. [NOT HAS PROPERTY CONVENTION] }

Controlling column mapping with a custom convention in Entity Framework 6

I have a class ...TypeEntity... that will act as the base class for several dozen entities. I'm using TPC, so I need to map all the properties on the base class to the table with the name of the concrete class, and set the ...Key... field to be database generated....Currently I'm doing this with an ...EntityTypeConfiguration... for each entity typ...

Conventions.Remove<OneToManyCascadeDeleteConvention>() in EF Core?

In my regular .NET Framework application, I was using EF 6.x and was also using some Inheritance, specifically:...PurchaseOrder.cs... and ...SaleOrder.cs... both inherit from ...Order.cs...And in the ...OnModelCreating()... on my context class inheriting from ...IdentityDbContext..., I was doing:...modelBuilder.Conventions.Remove<OneToManyCascadeDe...