EF 4.1 prefix table names globally

Question

Is there any way in EF 4.1 to globally prefix all table names?  In CTP5 we used custom convension for this. 

David

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David Blankenbush

Answer 1

Hi David,

The following articles demonstrates a workaround on how to implement custom and global conventions in EF 4.1.

http://dotnetspeak.com/index.php/2011/03/custom-conventions-in-entity-framework-code-first-v-4-1/

http://dotnetspeak.com/index.php/2011/04/global-conventions-in-entity-framework-code-first-v-4-1/

Note, that this workaround uses internal types by Reflection and so:

·         May break completely in future releases

·         May not work in a partial trust environment such as when bin-deployed to a hoster.

Thank you,

Julia

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Answer 2

One quick note on the solution. It does use reflection but only over public methods, so the chance for the solution to break is close to zero.  There is also NuGet package that I put the code into https://nuget.org/packages/EntityFramework.Extras.

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Sergey