Using the data annotation Required like so:
[Required]
public int somefield {get; set;}
Will set somefield to Not Null in database, How can I set somefield
to allow NULLs?, I tried setting it through SQL Server Management Studio but Entity Framework set it back to Not Null.
Just omit the [Required] attribute from the string somefield property. This will make it create a NULLable column in the db.
To make int types allow NULLs in the database, they must be declared as nullable ints in the model:
// an int can never be null, so it will be created as NOT NULL in db
public int someintfield { get; set; }
// to have a nullable int, you need to declare it as an int?
// or as a System.Nullable<int>
public int? somenullableintfield { get; set; }
public System.Nullable<int> someothernullableintfield { get; set; }
public int? somenullableintfield { get; set; }
The other option is to tell EF to allow the column to be null:
protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{
modelBuilder.Entity<SomeObject>().Property(m => m.somefield).IsOptional();
base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);
}
This code should be in the object that inherits from DbContext.
In Ef .net core there are two options that you can do; first with data annotations:
public class Blog
{
public int BlogId { get; set; } // optinal case
[Required]
public string Url { get; set; } // required case
}
Or with fluent api:
class MyContext : DbContext
{
public DbSet<Blog> Blogs { get; set; }
protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{
modelBuilder.Entity<Blog>()
.Property(b => b.Url)
.IsRequired(false)//optinal case
.IsRequired()//required case
;
}
}
public class Blog
{
public int BlogId { get; set; }
public string Url { get; set; }
}
There are more details here
Jon's answer didn't work for me as I got a compiler error CS0453 C# The type must be a non-nullable value type in order to use it as parameter 'T' in the generic type or method
This worked for me though:
protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{
modelBuilder.Entity<SomeObject>().HasOptional(m => m.somefield);
base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);
}
