Error: the entity type requires a primary key

Question

I would like to expand the question asked on this thread

Binding listbox to observablecollection

by giving it an ability to persistent the data. The structur

Answer 1

This exception message doesn't mean it requires a primary key to be defined in your database, it means it requires a primary key to be defined in your class.

Although you've attempted to do so:

private Guid _id;
[Key]
public Guid ID
{
    get { return _id; }
}

This has no effect, as Entity Framework ignores read-only properties. It has to: when it retrieves a Fruits record from the database, it constructs a Fruit object, and then calls the property setters for each mapped property. That's never going to work for read-only properties.

You need Entity Framework to be able to set the value of ID. This means the property needs to have a setter.