Validation failed for one or more entities. See 'EntityValidationErrors' property for more details [duplicate]

Answer 1

Per @Slauma's answer and @Milton's suggestion I've extended our base class's custom save method with a try/catch that will handle (and hence log in our error logging!) these sorts of exceptions.

// Where `BaseDB` is your Entities object... (it could be `this` in a different design)
public void Save(bool? validateEntities = null)
{
    try
    {
        //Capture and set the validation state if we decide to
        bool validateOnSaveEnabledStartState = BaseDB.Configuration.ValidateOnSaveEnabled;
        if (validateEntities.HasValue)
            BaseDB.Configuration.ValidateOnSaveEnabled = validateEntities.Value;

        BaseDB.SaveChanges();

        //Revert the validation state when done
        if (validateEntities.HasValue)
            BaseDB.Configuration.ValidateOnSaveEnabled = validateOnSaveEnabledStartState;
    }
    catch (DbEntityValidationException e)
    {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        foreach (var eve in e.EntityValidationErrors)
        {
            sb.AppendLine(string.Format("Entity of type \"{0}\" in state \"{1}\" has the following validation errors:", 
                                            eve.Entry.Entity.GetType().Name,
                                            eve.Entry.State));
            foreach (var ve in eve.ValidationErrors)
            {
                sb.AppendLine(string.Format("- Property: \"{0}\", Error: \"{1}\"",
                                            ve.PropertyName,
                                            ve.ErrorMessage));
            }
        }
        throw new DbEntityValidationException(sb.ToString(), e);
    }
}