EF 4.1 CodeFirst和枚举

Question

I have a class like that:

public class Customer
{
  public string Name {get; set; }
  public enumGender Gender {get; set; }
}

public enum enumGender 
{
    Male,
    Female
}

I`m trying to use this as entity and i want to map gender to the database as int, right now gender of course doesn't get mapped at all.

any idea how to do that

thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I was looking for the same thing and came across this link that helped me.

http://geekswithblogs.net/JoshReuben/archive/2011/05/18/entity-framework-4.1-code-first--mapping-enums-to-lookup.aspx

Hope it helps

Answer 2

this is how i got over it....

public class Customer
{
  public string Name {get; set; }
        public int gender { get; set; }
        public enumGender Gender
        {
            get { return (CodeFirstEF.Gender) gender; }
            set { gender = (int) value; }
        }
}

public enum enumGender 
{
    Male,
    Female
}

Answer 3

Another option, would be upgrading to the June CTP of Entity Framework, which now supports enums. http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=26660

This has been working wonderfully for me.