Entity Framework HierarchyId Workarounds

Question

EF 5.0

I am working on a prototype to test hierarchyid and entity framework together. I have the following schema:

Create Table dbo.Employee
(
   Emp         


        

Answer 1

Using varbinary(892) instead of hierarchyid. EF recognizes varbinary returning byte array. You can convert byte array to SqlHierarchyid type and use hyrarchy pod functions. With this workaround you can use hierarchyid functions even in other databases. See http://www.casavillar.com.br/blog with more details and links to nugget and github where you will find samples including MySql