Is there an option to make Entity Framework revert empty strings to null?

Question

I am using an ADO.NET Entity-Framework ObjectContext to access my data store.

I want the if values are set with empty strings, they should automatically become null.

Answer 1

Rather than complicating things by overriding the ObjectContext I use string extension methods to convert values for database storage

public static class StringExtensions
{
    public static string EmptyStringToNull(this string s)
    {
        return string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(s) ? null : s;
    }

    public static object EmptyStringToDBNull(this string s)
    {
        if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(s)) 
            return DBNull.Value;
        else 
            return s;
    }
}