Question

I am new to entity framework and I am trying to go the Code First approach. When defining one of my model classes I want one of the objects in the class to map to a Image column in my Sql Server Database. What object type would I use here so that when the table is created it would make that column an Image column?

Answer 1

you can use byte[] datatype on your objects, for Sql you can use varbinary(max) (as image data type will be removed from future sql version. MSDN – Image datatype

public byte[] yourFiles{get;set;}

you can configure like this using fluent api

modelBuilder.Entity<SomePOCOClass>().Property(p => p.yourFiles).HasColumnName("yourColumnName").HasMaxLength(SomeLength).HasColumnType("varbinary");