How to save enum in database as string

Question

This is my Model Class where we have a Type which could be a Zombie or Human

public class User
{
    public int ID { get; set; }
    public string Name { ge         


        

Answer 1

Explicit enum to string conversions would make your code messy and you'd have to keep parsing values. The same goes for lookup tables. Just add [Column] attribute to your enum field and specify TypeName as nvarchar (for SQL) or varchar (for postgres). Worked for me like a charm. In your case, for example :

public class User
{
    public int ID { get; set; }

    public string Name { get; set; }

    [Column(TypeName = "nvarchar(20)")]
    public Type Type { get; set; }

    public List WeposInList { get; set; }

    }  

You can read more about it in the official documentation here