Entity Framework Code First Date field creation

Question

I am using Entity Framework Code First method to create my database table. The following code creates a DATETIME column in the database, but I want to create a

Answer 1

Beside using ColumnAttribute you can also create a custom attribute convention for the DataTypeAttribute:

public class DataTypePropertyAttributeConvention : AttributeConfigurationConvention
{
    public override void Apply(PropertyInfo memberInfo, PrimitivePropertyConfiguration configuration, DataTypeAttribute attribute)
    {
        if (attribute.DataType == DataType.Date)
        {
            configuration.ColumnType = "Date";
        }
    }
}

Just register the convention in your OnModelCreating method:

protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{
     base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);

     modelBuilder.Conventions.Add(new DataTypePropertyAttributeConvention());
}