Question

In order to avoid magic strings when running the ExecuteStore command is it possible to get underlying table name [and columns] from the model in Entity Framework 4

Liam

Answer 1

I can’t tell you if there is, but the best shot would be to dive into the metadata of the context.

This might help you, it is a documentation about the metadata of the EF. If you can’t find it in the metadata, you are most likely out of luck.

Edit according to this (bottom of the page):

I have also been trying to query the mapping metadata. I wanted to find the metadata which describes how tables and entities are mapped and which stored procedures are mapped to entities. I was not able to find the metadata I needed via the MetadataWorkSpace. Afterwards Danny Simmons from Microsoft did let me know that this mapping metadata is not available publically and that it is something they have to do in a future release of the Entity Framework.

It seems to be impossible at the moment as this information is not publically avaiable; however, this is from 2008, so it might have changed in the meantime.