This dialog allows you to set model properties that affect code generations.
Model - General
Name
Name of the DataContext.
Base Class
Base class of the DataContext.
Context Namespace
Namespace for defining DataContext.
Entity Namespace
Namespace for defining the classes, mapped to tables.
Access
Set the accessibility level of the DataContext class here.
Serialization Mode
Select Unidirectional if you want to serialize your model classes. This adds [DataContract()] attributes from the System.Runtime.Serialization.dll assembly. Select None if you do not need serialization.
Inheritance Modifier
Set the inheritance modifier for the DataContext class here.
Mapping Mode
Determines how mapping and model are pre-processed at the build time.
Attributes
The code will be generated with mapping attributes.
File
To use external mapping, an XML mapping file should be created. The main model file (e.g., CrmDemoContext.lqml) should not be used for this purpose, as it stores extended information about entity fields and database columns. Thus, .lqml files include properties not declared in the mapping files schema.
To create the proper file, set the Mapping Mode model property to File. In this case, Entity Developer will generate a mapping file (e.g. CrmDemoContext.xml) that satisfies the standard schema.
Detect ManyToMany Associations
Select this check box to turn on the detection of many-to-many associations in your projects.
Use Database Comments
Determines whether comments for database objects, if supported by DBMS, will be used for model objects Documentation initialization and taken into account when executing model or database update operations.
Use connection string from App.config as
Determines the name of the connection string in the config file of the project, that will be used in Entity Developer.
Rewrite connection string during regeneration
Determines whether to overwrite the connection string in the project config file with the one, currently set in Entity Developer for the model, each time when regenerating code for the model.
Model - General - Initialization
Class Initialization
This grid displays and allows managing the automatically added properties.
Add
Pressing this button calls the Property Editor dialog box that allows you to configure the automatically added property.
Edit
Pressing this button calls the Property Editor dialog box that allows you to change settings of the automatically added property.
Remove
Pressing this button deletes the selected property.
Property Initialization
Options that will be automatically set when creating a new property.
Precision
Defines the Precision property value for entity properties being created.
Scale
Defines the Scale property value for entity properties being created.
Max Length
Defines the Max Length property value for entity properties being created.
Default Unicode
Defines the Unicode property value for entity properties being created and having string data type.
Concurrency Check
Defines the concurrency mode for entity properties being created.
Model - Attributes
.NET attribute types used for specifying the model object attributes
Displays and allows managing assemblies and attributes types.
Model - Extended Properties
Context Model
Allows adding extended properties for the context of the model. To add a custom property, click the Add button and edit its name, type and default value.
Class
Allows adding/removing extended properties for a class of the model.
Complex Type
Allows adding extended properties for the complex type of the model. To add a custom property, click the Add button and edit its name, type and default value.
Property
Allows adding/removing extended properties for a class property in the model.
Relation Property
Allows adding extended properties for the relation property of the model. To add a custom property, click the Add button and edit its name, type and default value.
Synchronization - Model Naming
The Model Naming page is divided in two sections - Class, Method Names and Class, Method Members' Names. The options presented in both sections allow changing the names of classes or their members by adding or removing suffixes, prefixes, etc.
Case
Changes the case of the letters in the name. Can take the following values:
Unchanged
Does not change the case.
Capitalized
The first letter of the entity name and the first letter after each underscore in the table name will be uppercase, other letters will be lowercase.
FirstLetterUppercase
The name of an entity begins with a capital letter, the case of other letters will not be changed.
Lower
All letters in the name of an entity are converted to the lower case.
Upper
All letters in the name of an entity are converted to the upper case.
Remove Preffix(es)
Removes the specified prefix(es).
Remove Suffix(es)
Removes the specified suffix(es).
Add Prefix
Adds the specified prefix.
Add Suffix
Adds the specified suffix.
Pluralization
Unchanged
Does not change the number.
Singularize
Singularizes the entities or entity members' name.
Pluralize
Pluralizes the entity or entity members' name.
Add schema as prefix
Allows you to add the schema name as a prefix to the class names.
Remove underscore
Removes underscores from classes or class members' names.
Add constraint details to navigation properties
Select this check box to add a suffix with column names, by which the foreign key constraint is created in the data source, to the corresponding navigation property name when generating a class with navigation properties from a data source table.
Example section
Shows the current and expected names in the corresponding Original and Becomes fields.
Synchronization - Database Naming
The Database Naming page is divided in two sections - Table, Procedure Names and Table, Procedure Members' Names. The options presented in both sections allow changing the names of entities or their members by adding or removing suffixes, prefixes etc.
Case
Changes the case of the letters in the name. Can take the following values:
Unchanged
Does not change the case.
Capitalized
The first letter of the entity name and the first letter after each underscore in the table name will be uppercase, other letters will be lowercase.
FirstLetterUppercase
The name of an entity begins with a capital letter, the case of other letters will not be changed.
Lower
All letters in the name of an entity are converted to the lower case.
Upper
All letters in the name of an entity are converted to the upper case.
Remove Preffix(es)
Removes the specified prefix(es).
Remove Suffix(es)
Removes the specified suffix(es).
Add Prefix
Adds the specified prefix.
Add Suffix
Adds the specified suffix.
Pluralization
Unchanged
Does not change the number.
Singularize
Singularizes the entities or entity members' name.
Pluralize
Pluralizes the entity or entity members' name.
Example section
Shows the current and expected names in the corresponding Original and Becomes fields.
Database Naming - Advanced
On this tab you can set special rules for generating default names of database objects to be applied in various cases of the Model First approach usage. When setting these rules, you can use predefined keywords which will be replaced with the corresponding values.
Primary Key Column
Defines special naming rules for primary key columns. Predefined keywords, which will be replaced with corresponding values are: %entity name%, %property name%.
Foreign Key Column
Defines special naming rules for foreign key columns. Predefined keywords, which will be replaced with corresponding values are: %entity name%, %master entity name%, %master property name%.
Synchronization - Mapping
Enable automatic synchronization of storage part and mapping of the model with its conceptual part.
Enables synchronization between conceptual model and storage part without storage part re-generation.
Target Server
Specifies the database server.
Server Version
Specifies the version of the database server.
Target Schema
Specifies the default scheme of the database server.
