Question

How do you programatically get the metadata for the dbset classes from an EF CodeFirst dbcontext? This is to loop through for code generation purposes.

Answer 1

After some additional research, I think I found an answer. Basically, you have to drop down into the ObjectContext, the original EF context that DbContext is a wrapper for, and use the MetadataWorkspace information below.

Please add another answer if there is a direct way to get this directly from the DbContext as it would be more intuitive and preferable if there is one.

using System.Data.Metadata.Edm;
using System.Data.Objects;
using System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure;

...

using (dbcontext context = new TestContext())
{
   ObjectContext objContext = ((IObjectContextAdapter)context).ObjectContext;
   MetadataWorkspace workspace = objContext.MetadataWorkspace;
   IEnumerable<EntityType> tables = workspace.GetItems<EntityType>(DataSpace.SSpace);

}

Thanks,
Will