EF Code First Fluent API - lowercase first letters of all columns

Question

I\'m hoping to set up an EF Code First convention where all of the column names of the properties have a lowercase first letter.

However, I have other fluent API cod

Answer 1

OK, the DBA's are speaking. Let's bow our heads in reverence and see what we can do. I'm afraid that in EF 5 (and lower) there's not much you can do to make it easy. In EF 6 there is this feature of Custom Code First Conventions which actually make it a piece of cake. I just tried a small sample:

// Just some POCO
class Person
{
  public int PersonId { get; set; }
  public string PersonName { get; set; }
}

// A custom convention.
class FirstCharLowerCaseConvention : IStoreModelConvention
{
    public void Apply(EdmProperty property, DbModel model)
    {
        property.Name = property.Name.Substring(0, 1).ToLower()
                      + property.Name.Substring(1);
    }
}

class MyContext : DbContext
{
  protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
  {
    modelBuilder.Entity();

    // Add the convention to the modelbuilder.
    modelBuilder.Conventions.Add(new FirstCharLowerCaseConvention());

    base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);
  }
}

After running

using (var db = new MyContext())
{
  db.Database.Create();
}

my database has a People table with personId and personName.

And some simple CRUD actions work flawlessly:

using (var db = new MyContext())
{
    var p = new Person { PersonName = "Another Geek" };
    db.Set().Add(p);
    db.SaveChanges();
}

using (var db = new MyContext())
{
    var x = db.Set().ToList();
}

So if the DBA's want their conventions, you can demand a new toy :)