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

For anyone using Entity Framework 6.1+, you can do the following with fluent api:

modelBuilder 
    .Entity() 
    .Property(t => t.Name) 
    .HasColumnAnnotation("Index", new IndexAnnotation(new IndexAttribute()));

Read more in the documentation.