How to manage GetDate() with Entity Framework

Question

I have a column like this in 1 of my database tables

DateCreated, datetime, default(GetDate()), not null

I am trying to use the Entity Framewor

Answer 1

You have to manually edit the edmx xml and set your SSDL StoreGeneratedPattern attributes to identity or computed. But whenever you update your edmx via the designer your changes will get overwritten.

This is a known issue. Please see the following links for more details:

Microsoft Connect Ticket

Using a GUID as an EntityKey in Entity Framework 4