Entity Framework Code First Fluent Api: Adding Indexes to columns

Question

I\'m running EF 4.2 CF and want to create indexes on certain columns in my POCO objects.

As an example lets say we have this employee class:

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Answer 1

I've also looked into this recently and found no other way, so I settled with creating indexes when seeding the database:

public class MyDBInitializer : DropCreateDatabaseIfModelChanges
{
    private MyContext _Context;

    protected override void Seed(MyContext context)
    {
        base.Seed(context);
        _Context = context;

        // We create database indexes
        CreateIndex("FieldName", typeof(ClassName));

        context.SaveChanges();
    }

    private void CreateIndex(string field, Type table)
    {
        _Context.Database.ExecuteSqlCommand(String.Format("CREATE INDEX IX_{0} ON {1} ({0})", field, table.Name));
    }    
}