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How can I add an Image type to an EF4 Code First Entity? I need to add a column for thumbnail images. public Image Thumbnail { get; set; } Thanks! Images are represented as binary in EF 4 http://thedatafarm.com/blog/data-access/sql-server-2008-data-types-and-entity-framework-4/ You will need to do something like this public Binary Thumbnail {get; set} Then convert the image to binary This reference will help you with the image to binary conversion http://www.dotnetspider.com/resources/6150-Convert-Image-binary-format.aspx public System.Data.Linq.Binary Thumbnail {get; set} For those wondering

Okay, this should be really easy, but I've been tearing my hair out. Here's my POCO (which has to do with machine parts, so a part can be contained within a parent part): public class Part { public int ID { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public Part ParentPart { get; set; } } When the database table is created, the column names are "ID", "Name", and "PartID". How do I change the name of that last column to "ParentPartID"? Basically, you want to rename the foreign key in an Independent Association and this is the fluent API code that will do it: protected override void

I've got the following model and I want ShiftRequest and MissionRequest to have a single table in the DB. public class RequestBase { public int Id { get; set; } public DateTime? RequestDate { get; set; } public int UserId { get; set; } public virtual ICollection<Notification> Notifications { get; set; } } public class ShiftRequest : RequestBase { public virtual Column Column { get; set; } } public class MissionRequest : RequestBase { public virtual Mission Mission { get; set; } } I've tried to do it in the override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder) method but only one

I have a database and i using 2 different schemas. Schemas are like namespaces (correct me if i am wrong). This way i have 1 db and currently 2 schemas... so the tables in 1 schema can be named the same as the tables in the other schema because they are in separate schemas. How do i get EF Code first to talk to a different schema and not the default schema? Is it somethign to do with MapSingleType and overriding a method or can i do something else? ANy help really appreciated. Devart You can implement the following convention: public class DefaultSchemaConvention : IConfigurationConvention

I have a table that has a unique index on a table with an Ordinal column. So for example the table will have the following columns: TableId, ID1, ID2, Ordinal The unique index is across the columns ID1, ID2, Ordinal. The problem I have is that when deleting a record from the database I then resequence the ordinals so that they are sequential again. My delete function will look like this: public void Delete(int id) { var tableObject = Context.TableObject.Find(id); Context.TableObject.Remove(tableObject); ResequenceOrdinalsAfterDelete(tableObject); } The issue is that when I call Context

I have this class and table: public class Foo { public Guid Id {get;set;} public string Name {get;set;} } create table Foo ( id uniqueidentifier primary KEY DEFAULT (newsequentialid()), name nvarchar(255) ) the problem is that when i try to save new foo the first one goes with the 0000-000-00 ... id and the second also, so I get constraint exception anybody knows a fix ? Devart Have you set Identity StoreGeneratedPattern? You can do it in the OnModelCreating method: modelBuilder.Entity<Foo>().Property(o => o.Id).HasDatabaseGeneratedOption(DatabaseGeneratedOption.Identity); or using the