Question

I want to define a primary key for a POCO entity but i dont want to decorate the entity with primary key attribute i wanna define that from the context class which extend DbContext

i know i should use something like:

Entity<Order>().HasKey(x => x.OrderId);

but i dont know how to do that in my context class.

any help?

Answer 1

In you DbContext-class you can override OnModelCreating like this

protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{
    modelBuilder.Entity<Order>.HasKey(x => x.OrderId);
    base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);
}