ef-database-first

I've already created a database using code first. It worked well. Many changes have since been made to the database outside Visual Studio. So many that any attempt at migration generates errors. So my question is, is there a way to switch a solution from code first to database first? This should be easy, just create a new, database first model and delete your code first model. Most of your code will compile just fine if you are in the same namespace and take care of naming your context in the same way. Switching to database first however, makes you lose the ability to migrate which is a solid

It seems that most of the focus with MVC3 and EF4.1 is around "code first" - I can't seem to find any examples or tutorials that meet the following criteria: uses an existing SQLServer database has separate projects for web & data access (we will have multiple web apps sharing the same data access classes) recommendations for validation Does such an example or tutorial exist? Are there any documented "best practices" for how to accomplish this, or rationale for NOT having a solution structured this way? Ladislav Mrnka It is quite common scenario and it depends if you want to use EDMX file for

EDIT - as requested, this is the view... --start edit @model salesWebTest.viewModel.vwbooking @using (Html.BeginForm()) { @Html.AntiForgeryToken() @Html.ValidationSummary(true) @Html.HiddenFor(model => model.bookings.bookingid) @Html.EditorFor(model => model.bookings.name) @foreach (var item in Model.traces) { @Html.EditorFor(m => item.contact_Name) } } --end edit --start original question I have a viewModel that contains two classes... public class vwbooking { public booking bookings { get; set; } public IEnumerable<trace> traces { get; set; } } Booking and trace are entities in an edmx. I

Let's say I'm a new developer in a company. So there is already an existing database for the project. To work on the project, obviously I need to scaffold the existing database(database first approach), which can generate model classes for me to work on. So I start to work on the project and want to add a new column to a table, so I add a new property on the model class then I want to apply this change in the database. So I switch back to code first approach by adding a new migration and update the database. But the problem is, if I add a new migration, EF will include all the data model

I am struggling with getting a simplemembership scenario working in my EntityFramework / MVC4 / DatabaseFirst project. I've found plenty of examples for working with code first, but nothing for DB first. The problem I'm encountering is the the InitializeDatabaseConnection is throwing an error ("Unable to find the requested .Net Framework Data Provider. It may not be installed.") The code looks like this : WebSecurity.InitializeDatabaseConnection("DALEntities", "tblContacts1", "ContactID", "EMail", autoCreateTables: true); I am not sure what DataProvider is failing. If I try to trace 'into' the

We need an option to set the ProviderManifestToken in code for a Database First Model in order to override the value from the EDMX, which defaults to "2012" for SQL Server 2012 in our particular case. What we've tried so far: As described in this post we decorated our context class with the DbConfigurationType attribute, our derived class looks exactly the same as in that post. internal sealed class MyDbConfiguration : DbConfiguration { public MyDbConfiguration() { //this.AddDependencyResolver(new SingletonDependencyResolver<IManifestTokenResolver>(new ManifestTokenService())); this