Question

I’m using CodeFirst of EF with a well defined Database.
My Database has a table named ‘Centros’ (Portuguese word) and I manage to find that EF tries to pluralize my entities to get a ‘Centroes’ witch is wrong in this case.

If I remove the pluralization modelBuilder.Conventions.Remove<PluralizingTableNameConvention>(); i manage to get it to work BUT I have to rename my table to ‘Centro’ (to match my entity name).

In Portuguese ‘Centro’ is singular, ‘Centros’ is plural.

I don’t want to rename my table names so how can I specify the matching table name for my entity after a remove the pluralization convention?

Answer 1

I annotate all my classes, regardless of whether the framework can do it for me through some smart reflection routines. E.g.

[Table("Order")]
public class Order
{

}

We can touch type, it’s cleaner and it’s less likely to fall over in some unexpected event.