Entity Framework Foreign Key Inserts with Auto-Id

Question

I have 2 Entities User and User_Profile (one to one relationship). I have linked them as follows:

public class User
{
   [Key]   
   [ForeignKey(\"user_profile\"         


        

Answer 1

I think it is necessary to configure your one-to-one relationship explicitely using Fluent API:

public class MyContext : DbContext
{
    // ... your DbSets

    protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
    {
        modelBuilder.Entity()
            .HasRequired(u => u.user_profile)
            .WithRequiredPrincipal();
    }
}

And the entity classes:

public class User
{
    [Key]   
    public int user_id {get;set;}
    public string username {get;set;}
    public string email {get;set;}
    public virtual User_Profile user_profile {get;set;}
}

public class User_Profile
{
    [Key]
    [DatabaseGenerated(DatabaseGeneratedOption.None)]
    public int user_id {get;set;}
    public string firstname {get;set;}
    public string lastname {get;set;}
}

It's necessary to switch off DatabaseGeneratedOption from Identity to None in one of the classes. I have swapped principal and dependent as it seems that the User should be the principal. The [ForeignKey(...)] is not necessary because EF will recognize user_id in User_Profile as a FK property to User.

A code like this...

using (var context = new MyContext())
{
    var user = new User();
    var userProfile = new User_Profile();

    user.user_profile = userProfile;

    context.Users.Add(user);
    context.SaveChanges();
}

...should work then as you expect and save both related entities to the database.