Add "customattribute" to entities

[rbrink]

Hi,

Is it possible to add a custom annotation to an entity using Entity Developer? What I mean by this is the following:

<EntityType Name="CartItem" customannotation:ClrType="EntityModel.CartItem">
or
<EntityType Name="CartItem" customannotation:ClrType="MyApp.CartItem, MyApp, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null">

The reason I ask this is because we suffer from an Entity Framework issue:
`System.Data.Entity.Core.MetadataException: Schema specified is not valid. Errors:
The mapping of CLR type to EDM type is ambiguous because multiple CLR types match the EDM type 'Translation'. `
More here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/149 ... ith-ef-6-5

This error occurs because we use two separate data models in our application (both created with Entity Developer btw) and both contain an entity named `Translation` in this case.

To overcome this error we'd like to add the above `customannotation` as mentioned in the thread on Stackoverflow (see link above).

Is this even possible?

We use Entity Developer 6.6.894, Entity Framework 6.2.0 and SQL Server 2017 for the database.

Cheers,
Raymond

[Shalex]

Refer to https://github.com/dotnet/ef6/issues/362:

When using Code First in EF6, having another type with the same simple name as a type that is mapped will no longer cause problems

With Devart Entity Model (*.edml), you can use two approaches:

1. Fluent (or attribute) mapping. There should be no error in this case. Make the following settings to use it:
a) disable default EntityObject template and enable DbContext template via Tools > Entity Developer > Model Explorer > the Templates node. Set Fluent Mapping = True in the properties of the DbContext template. Also you can change value of the Mapping Generation Strategy property
b) select designer surface and set Metadata Artifact Processing = Do Not Generate Mapping Files in the properties of EntityContextModel

2. XML mapping. It is generated by DbContext (when Fluent Mapping=False) and by EntityObject templates. We will investigate the possibility to add a custom annotation to an entity for this scenario.