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HI,
I have a need to have collections created as Lists as opposed to HashSets or ObservableCollections which seem to be the only two options. Based on other forum entries and the documentation, this is possible with the NHibernate template, but I do not see the same capability for the dbConext templates.

Is there a way to accomplish this?

Thanks,
Carl

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@chneumann,
by default dbcontext generates ICollection<>;
List is an implementation of it so you can safely cast to List<>.

@figueiredorj,
Thank you for posting. Your answer is about EF Core.

@chneumann,
You are working with EF6, aren't you? The type ICollection<T> or ObservableCollection or ObservableListSource of collection property depends on the values of the following DbContext template properties: EnableWinFormsDataBinding, UseObservableCollection, ProxyCreationEnabled. Does this information help?

Entity Developer 6.8 is released: viewtopic.php?f=32&t=41293.

It includes the following improvements:
* The new property Collection Property Type is added to EF template "DbContext" and EF Core template "EF Core" to determine .NET type used as a property type for the Many end of associations
* The new property Collection Initialization Type is added to EF template "DbContext" and EF Core template "EF Core" to determine .NET type used for initialization of the Many end of association; if it is set to None, then no initialization is generated