Question

I have a project built using EF code first. It also uses forms authentication. Until recently the membership database and the application database were being developed separately, but I want to combine them into one database for simplicity.

One of the classes in my code first model is called “Application” so the EF-generated table is called “Applications” which conflicts with a membership table of the same name. This is an example of my current context:

public partial class ExampleContext : DbContext
{
    public DbSet<Application> Applications { get; set; }
    public DbSet<Status> StatusTypes { get; set; } // notice the name of the property vs the name of the class
}

I thought the table names were based on the names of the properties in the context, because it was generating a table named StatusTypes for all of the Status objects. But if I rename the Applications property to something like MyApplications it is still generating a table named Applications. So clearly it’s not just the name of the property and I’m missing something.

My question: how do I get EF to name this table differently?

Answer 1

I just renamed the class and it worked. Easiest solution for now.