Entity Framework Migrations don't include DefaultValue data annotation (EF5RC)

Question

I have a class that looks like this:

[Table(\"Subscribers\", Schema = \"gligoran\")]
public class Subscriber
{
    [Key]
    public string Email { get; set;          


        

Answer 1

As an Extra to Ladislav's Comment. Which is correct. you cant do it in the model. IF you wanted to use code based migrations. Ie using PM commandlet Add-Migration / Update Database, then this approach introduces a generated class into the process. Then you can have defaults . See the classes that Derive from DBMigrations. see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.entity.migrations.dbmigration.addcolumn%28v=vs.103%29.aspx You can specific Column builder Lamda expressions. This allows defaults.

namespace MigrationsDemo.Migrations
{
  using System;
  using System.Data.Entity.Migrations;

public partial class SomeClassThatisATable : DbMigration
{
    public override void Up()
    {
        AddColumn("MyTable", "MyColumn", c => c.String( defaultvalue:"Mydefault"  ));
    }

Answer 2

EF doesn't use DefaultValue attribute at all = it is not part of the model so migrations don't see it. You can propose support of this annotation on Data UserVoice.