XML data type in EF 4.1 Code First

Question

I would like to use SQL Server xml type as a column type for an entity class.

According to this thread it\'s possible to map such a column to st

Answer 1

Just to be complete. Here's all code needed, in one part.

[Column(TypeName = "xml")]
public String XmlContent { get; set; }

[NotMapped]
public XElement InitializedXmlContent
{
    get { return XElement.Parse(XmlContent); }
    set { XmlContent = value.ToString(); }
}

Answer 2

The problem was with my wrapper property:

[NotMapped]
public XElement XmlValueWrapper
{
    get { return XElement.Parse(XmlValue); }
    set { XmlValue = value.ToString(); }
}

I didn't specified NotMapped attribute.

Answer 3

This's how you do that in Data Annotations, if you want to use Fluent API (and use a mapping class) then:

public partial class XmlEntityMap : EntityTypeConfiguration<XmlEntity>
{
    public FilterMap()
    {
        // ...
        this.Property(c => c.XmlContent).HasColumnType("xml");

        this.Ignore(c => c.XmlValueWrapper);
    }
}

If you use Fluent API by overriding OnModelCreating on DbContext then just change those "this" with modelBuilder.Entity<XmlEntity>()