A semi-common issue that folks hit with Entity Framework is that the in-memory semantics for “relationship fixup” are different than how SQL Server performs joins with regard to trailing spaces in strings. Relationship fixup is the process where EF looks at primary and foreign key values and populates navigation properties when they match. The … Continue reading EF6.1–Workaround Trailing Blanks Issue in String Joins
Month: October 2014
EF6.1 Getting Key Properties for an Entity
Today I had a question show up in my inbox about finding the key properties of a given entity type. Searching around I didn’t find a good existing post about this, so here is the code you need. The code provides a couple of simple extension methods to DbContext. Note that the code is somewhat … Continue reading EF6.1 Getting Key Properties for an Entity