entity-framework-4.1

I have a entity class public class Employee { public long Id { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } } I have set the Id field as the primary key with auto number generation modelBuilder.Entity<Employee>().HasKey(e => e.Id); modelBuilder.Entity<Employee>().Property(e => e.Id).HasDatabaseGeneratedOption(DatabaseGeneratedOption.Identity); But I want the Identity to seed from 10000 instead of from 1 which is the default. How can I specify this in EF? Ladislav Mrnka If you are using SQL Server you must create custom database initializer and manually execute DBCC CHECKIDENT ('TableName',

I'm trying to set up a many to many relationship in EF code first but the default conventions is getting it wrong. The following classes describes the relationship: class Product { public int Id { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } } class Account { public int Id { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public virtual ICollection<Product> Products { get; set; } } One Account can have many Products. However the EF conventions will create the DB tables as: Products Table -------------- Id Name Account_Id <- What is this? Accounts Table -------------- Id Name This doesn't look

Wondering if I need to use the Genericrepository pattern and UnitOfWork to mock the repository.I am using MOQ.Is it now redundant since I have noticed that EF 4.1 has IDBSet. I have not figured out how to write something generic that usic IDBSet .If you have an example where you implement IDBSet can you show it to me? Any suggestions? Ladislav Mrnka This is duplicate of many topics already discussed on SO but I agree that some of them can be hard to find because they are nested in other question What's the point of Generic repository in EF 4.1 Challenges with testable and mockable code in EF

I am using Entity Framework 5 code first and ASP.NET MVC 3 . I am struggling to get a child object's child object to populate. Below are my classes.. Application class; public class Application { // Partial list of properties public virtual ICollection<Child> Children { get; set; } } Child class: public class Child { // Partial list of properties public int ChildRelationshipTypeId { get; set; } public virtual ChildRelationshipType ChildRelationshipType { get; set; } } ChildRelationshipType class: public class ChildRelationshipType { public int Id { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; }