Question

I have a POCO class as follows

public class Category 
{ 
   public int ID {get; set; }
   public string desc {get; set; }
   public int parentID {et; set; }
}

public class Issue 
{
   public int ID {get; set;}
   ....
   public int categoryID {get; set; }
   public int subCategoryID {get; set; }

   public virtual Category category{get; set; }
   public virtual Category subCategory {get; set;}
}

I keep getting errors with foreign keys with the above classes. Basically, my Category table holds categories with sub categories. And an issue can have a category and subCategory. Would somebody guide me to the correct way to define this relationship? I’ve tried using Foreign Key annotations but it gives me an error saying the data base was created but the object creation failed because of foreign key relation specified on Issue. Any ideas why? And what I can do to resolve this ?

Answer 1

Please see this article – How to Configure a Self Referencing Entity in Code First

I believe that will help you setup the relationship correctly. As you will see in the article you need to define some addditional fluent settings in the OnModelCreating method in your DbContext class.