EF 6 IsRequired() allowing empty strings

Question

In past projects with versions of EF5 and EF4, the IsRequired() fluent API method would thrown a DbEntityValidationException if the property was null or an empty string. In my

Answer 1

These days you can still use [Required] attribute and have configurable AllowEmptyStrings

[Required(AllowEmptyStrings = false)]

False is default