How to set a default value on a Boolean in a Code First model?

Question

I have an existing table / model into which I want to drop a new Boolean column. This table already has many hundreds of rows of data, and I can\'t touch the existing data.

Answer 1

You can simply avoid auto-implemented properties and set the property value to true when you initialize your object.

private Boolean _isReleased = true;
public Boolean IsReleased 
{ 
    get
    {
        return _isReleased;
    }
    set
    {
        _isReleased = value;
    }
}