How can I use EF to add multiple child entities to an object when the child has an identity key?

Question

We are using EF5 and SQL Server 2012 the following two classes:

public class Question
{
    public Question()
    {
        this.Answers = new List

        

Answer 1

Did you mentioned that you are adding a two times...?!

question.Answers.Add(a);
question.Answers.Add(a);

Usually, to add items which their id is identity, you must skip setting the id. You also should add the [DatabaseGeneratedAttribute(DatabaseGeneratedOption.Identity)] attribute to these IDs:

public class Answer
{
    [DatabaseGeneratedAttribute(DatabaseGeneratedOption.Identity)]
    public int AnswerId { get; set; }
    public string Text { get; set; }
    public int QuestionId { get; set; }
    public virtual Question Question { get; set; }
}

And add data like this:

var a = new Answer{
    Text = "AAA",
    QuestionId = 14
};

var b = new Answer
{
    Text = "BBB",
    QuestionId = 14
};

dbContext.Answers.Add(a);
dbContext.Answers.Add(b);

dbContext.SaveChanges();

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