Create Edmx from C# Code - Not from database

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Is it possible to generate an Edmx file by creating the collections (schema, conceptual, mappings) and mappings in code and building it up in C#? Note - I've used EdmGen and EdmGen2 which read from a database to create the Edmx. I want to be able to pass the specific items into the metadata without pointing at a database.

Any ideas appreciated. thanks.

Take a look at this: huagati.blogspot.com/2010/12/…

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Adi Unnithan · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-14 21:19:41Z

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Why not use code first? This is essentially what code first does; it inspects the POCO CLR types you have in your project and creates the corresponding conceptual/storage/mappings by convention. You can also configure those conventions through a fluent code API.

When you spin up a code first DbContext, you can also get to the resulting XML-based EDMX (if you really need it) from within it through a WriteEdmx() method.

If you don't want Code First to generate a database automatically, you can turn off that 'initializer'.

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Dhana Krishnasamy · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-24 19:25:05Z

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You can write a simple dummy db context and use this VS extension to get the EDMX generated http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/72a60b14-1581-4b9b-89f2-846072eff19d

answered Nov 24, 2013 at 19:25

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