Is there a way to have class names be different from your table names?

Question

We are using a database created several years ago, and would like to keep the table names the same.

All of our tables are named like: \"tbl_Orders\" but we would l

Answer 1

You can use following code in your DbContext to map all your entities to your tables:

protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{
   // TableNameConvention
     modelBuilder.Types()
                 .Configure(entity => 
                            entity.ToTable("tbl_" + entity.ClrType.Name));

     base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);
}

Answer 2

You can use the Table attribute or the fluent api to map between table names in your database and class names

[Table("tbl_Blogs")] 
public class Blog