Entity Framework Code First and Multiple Assemblies

Question

I have a subclass in a different assembly to its base class. The parent is a POCO class used for EF Code First.

When I try to add an instance of inherited class to the database I get InvalidOperationException: "Object mapping could not be found for Type with identity 'Foo.Bar.MyInheritedClass'".

It works fine if subclass is in same assembly as base class.

In regular EF the solution seems to be a call to ObjectContext.MetadataWorkspace.LoadFromAssembly(assembly). But I can't figure out how this relates to Code First.

Any advice?

I'm using Entity Framework 4.1 RC.

Answer 1

I solved this by inheriting from the first assembliy's DbContext, adding a DbSet<> for the derived class, and then adding new instances of derived type to to that.

Posted code on MSDN forum here.

Answer 2

I know this post is a bit old, but I was able to accomplish this using @Dave's recomendation inside the constructor:

public Context() {
    ((IObjectContextAdapter)this).ObjectContext.MetadataWorkspace.LoadFromAssembly(
        System.Reflection.Assembly.GetAssembly(
             typeof(--[Inherited DbContext]--)));
}

Answer 3

I'm quite new to EF (Entity Framework 4) and I got the same exception when I made changes in the model.

My problem turned out to be that I did not know EF need all the names on all the navigation properties to agree, not only their type. For example if there is a navigation property named foo, then there needs to be a declared variable in the corresponding class with the very same name.