Question

I have a table called Tournaments which is created using the EF code first approach with the following attributes:

    public int TournamentID { get; set; }
    public String Name { get; set; }
    public String DirectorSurname { get; set; }
    public String DirectorFirstName { get; set; }
    public String Logo { get; set; }
    public String Timezone { get; set; }
    public String Telephone { get; set; }
    public String Fax { get; set; }
    public String Email { get; set; }
    public String Website { get; set; }
    public DateTime StartDate { get; set; }
    public DateTime EndDate { get; set; }
    public int IntervalTime { get; set; }

If I run this and check my SQL Server Management Studio then the StartDate and EndDate gets created but it is non-nullable despite me not adding the [Required] DataAnnotations. How can I fix this?

Answer 1

Try this:

public DateTime? StartDate {get;set;}
public DateTime? EndDate {get;set;}

C# nullable types gets converted to SQL nullable.