XML data type in EF 4.1 Code First

Question

I would like to use SQL Server xml type as a column type for an entity class.

According to this thread it\'s possible to map such a column to st

Answer 1

This's how you do that in Data Annotations, if you want to use Fluent API (and use a mapping class) then:

public partial class XmlEntityMap : EntityTypeConfiguration
{
    public FilterMap()
    {
        // ...
        this.Property(c => c.XmlContent).HasColumnType("xml");

        this.Ignore(c => c.XmlValueWrapper);
    }
}

If you use Fluent API by overriding OnModelCreating on DbContext then just change those "this" with modelBuilder.Entity()