Question

How do I toggle this convention PluralizingTableNameConvention for only a single table/DbSet? As far as I can tell, I can only do this to all the DbSets for a given DbContext

Answer 1

If you have only one entity which is mapped to a table that is not pluralizeed then you can remove the PluralizingTableNameConvention and manually configure the table name of the entity.

public class MyContext : DbContext
{
    protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
    {
        base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);

        modelBuilder.Conventions.Remove<PluralizingTableNameConvention>();

        modelBuilder.Entity<Item>().ToTable("Items");
    }
 }

Or if it is the otherway around

public class MyContext : DbContext
{
    protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
    {
        base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);

        modelBuilder.Entity<Item>().ToTable("Item");
    }
 }