Assigning custom extensions to a language's syntax highlighting in Notepad++

When you open a file in notepad++ it will attempt to load syntax highlighting for the contents based on file extension.

If you use custom extension for one of the existing languages you can add the custom extension in Settings -> Styler Configurator. Select language and add the extension in "User extension" edit box. To add multiple extensions separate them using space.

You can also change syntax highlighting style by selecting a different language from language menu.

Entity Framework SQL Server Default Value

            context.Database.ExecuteSqlCommand(
                 @"ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Users]
                    ADD DEFAULT(0) FOR [Balance]"
            );

Entity Framework 4.1 – One To One Mapping

In the snippet below you can see that a customer has an address property.

public class Customer { public Customer() { Address = new Address(); }   public Guid Id { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public Address Address { get; set; } public Guid AddressId { get; set; } }   public class Address { public Guid Id { get; set; } public string City { get; set; } public string Country { get; set; } public string Street { get; set; } }

The database that gets generated though defines this as a one to many relationship.

Which is not what you’re expecting, or is it? I haven’t defined any restrictions on the address class so indeed an address could be shared between multiple customers. Let’s change that.

public class Customer { public Customer() { Address = new Address(); }   public Guid Id { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public Address Address { get; set; }   }   public class Address { public Guid Id { get; set; } public string City { get; set; } public string Country { get; set; } public string Street { get; set; } [Required] public Customer Customer { get; set; } }

I’ve added a navigation property from Address to Customer and marked the Customer property as required. This basically is telling EF that there is a one to one mapping between the two and the primary key of the customer should be used in the relationship. The primary key of the customer will also become the primary key of the address. If you did not add the required attribute you’ll get an invalidoperationexception saying that it’s unable to determine the principal end of an association.

You can also use the fluent api.

public class CustomerContext : DbContext { public IDbSet<Customer> Customers { get; set; }   protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder) { modelBuilder.Entity<Address>().HasRequired(x => x.Customer); base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder); }   }

They both result in the same database structure.

What if both ends are required? A customer always has an address and an address always has a customer. Marking both ends as required will again result in the same exception as before.

In order to model this you have to use the fluent api and there are two ways to achieve the desired result.

public class CustomerContext : DbContext { public IDbSet<Customer> Customers { get; set; }   protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder) { modelBuilder.Entity<Address>() .HasRequired(x => x.Customer) .WithRequiredDependent(x => x.Address); base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder); } }

I’m saying here that the address entity has a required customer property and that the customer class is actually in charge, MSDN reference.

Resulting database structure:

Another way to achieve the same result:

public class CustomerContext : DbContext { public IDbSet<Customer> Customers { get; set; }   protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder) { modelBuilder.Entity<Address>() .HasRequired(x => x.Customer) .WithRequiredDependent(); modelBuilder.Entity<Customer>() .HasRequired(x => x.Address) .WithRequiredPrincipal(); base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder); } }

MSDN link on WithRequiredPrincipal.

You saw that the WithRequiredPrincipal and Depedant actually have one taking a lambda and one with no arguments. This allows you to exclude a navigation property and still get a proper one to one mapping. Which brings me back to my starting point.

public class Customer { public Customer() { Address = new Address(); }   public Guid Id { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public Address Address { get; set; } }   public class Address { public Guid Id { get; set; } public string City { get; set; } public string Country { get; set; } public string Street { get; set; }     }   public class CustomerContext : DbContext { public IDbSet<Customer> Customers { get; set; }   protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder) { modelBuilder.Entity<Customer>() .HasRequired(x => x.Address) .WithRequiredPrincipal(); base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder); } }

EF (Entity Framework) Code First Computed Properties

There are a couple of other options as well.

The first is to change the property setup in the mapping file from:

this.Property(t => t.Name)
    .HasMaxLength(152);

to:

this.Property(t => t.Name)
    .HasMaxLength(152)
    .HasDatabaseGeneratedOption(DatabaseGeneratedOption.Computed);

This is pretty much the same as Same Huggill's solution, except it keeps this configuration in the mapping, rather than in the model. I feel this is slightly better since the mapping class already contains code to tell Entity Framework how to load that type of entity, so the knowledge that a field is computed belongs in there.

Another option is the NotMappedAttribute which can be applied to individual properties of an entity like so:

public class User
{
    ...

    [NotMapped]
    public string Name
    {
        get;
        set;
    }

    ...
}

This is useful for when the entity contains properties that are not populated from the database, but it should be equally useful in the scenario faced by OP, i.e., EF will not try to push the value in a property marked with the NotMappedAttribute, therefore insert should work.