Entity Framework - making it read only? [duplicate]

Answer 1

I elected to override SaveChanges and throw an exception for the time being.

On second thought and after some good feedback I am not going to do this.

Answer 2

For your custom apps have the connection string point to a database user that only has read-only access. You will get errors if they then try to write to the database.

http://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/sql-server/454-create-read-only-database-user-in-sql-server.html