How to generate and auto increment Id with Entity Framework

Question

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I\'m trying to post the following JSON POST request via Fiddler:

{Username:\"Bob\", FirstName:\"Foo\", LastName         


        

Answer 1

You have a bad table design. You can't autoincrement a string, that doesn't make any sense. You have basically two options:

1.) change type of ID to int instead of string
2.) not recommended!!! - handle autoincrement by yourself. You first need to get the latest value from the database, parse it to the integer, increment it and attach it to the entity as a string again. VERY BAD idea

First option requires to change every table that has a reference to this table, BUT it's worth it.