Map string column in Entity Framework to Enum

Question

Is there a way to map a string column to an enum in an Entity Model?

I have done this in Hibernate, but can\'t figure it out in EMF.

Answer 1

You can do either:

Decorate the Enum property in your class as a text column

[Column(TypeName = "nvarchar(50)")]
public FileTypes FileType { get; set; }

OR

in your DatabaseContext class, override the OnModelCreating and add:

modelBuilder
  .Entity()
  .Property(e => e.FileType)
  .HasConversion(new EnumToStringConverter());