Question

I am creating a field :

public Byte[] Image { get; set; }

This will create a fields called Image with data type varbinary and length is 4000.

When I save a record, it will fail to save because the image is hugh to save in varbinary(4000).

How do I make it to image datattype or bigger binary length?

I am using sqlserver ce 4.

Answer 1

You must change the mapping for your property to use image type in the database. You can do that either with data annotations:

[Column(TypeName = "image")]
public Byte[] Image { get; set; }

or with fluent API:

modelBuilder.Entity<...>().Property(e => e.Image).HasColumnType("image");