Can we use enums as typesafe entity ids?

Question

We are working with a rather large model in a EF 6.1 code first setup and we are using ints for entity ids.

Unfortunately, this is not as typesafe as we would like, sinc

Answer 1

Not sure that this will work in EF but one thing you could do is to have your entities implement IEquatable:

For example your Blog class:

public class Blog : IEquatable
{
    // other stuff
    public bool Equals(Blog other)
    {
        return this.Id.Equals(other.Id);
    }
}

Alternatively you could use a more flexible ORM such as NHibernate. If this is of interest, let me know and I'll expand my answer.