This template is designed for generating a strongly-typed ObjectContext class and self-tracking entity classes. This template is available both in C# and Visual Basic.
This template has the following properties:
Description
Description of the template.
Enabled
Indicates whether the template is enabled. Acceptable values are True or False.
File Name
The name of the template file.
Name
The name of the template.
Type
The type of the template.
Header Timestamp Version Control Tag
Setting this option will replace the standard date/time stamp in the file header with the specified tag (e.g. a version control tag for Subversion, Git, etc.)
Include Environment Variables
Determines whether context configuration will be extended with environment variables when a connection string from the appsettings.json file is used. This property is applied only when using Entity Developer as a Visual Studio add-in. It is ignored in Entity Developer run as a separate application.
Json File Base Path
Specifies the base path for file-based providers when a connection string from the appsettings.json file is used. The special reserved value %CurrentDirectory% means that the current working directory of the application is used as the base path. This property is applied only when using Entity Developer as a Visual Studio add-in. It is ignored in Entity Developer run as a separate application.
Nullable Reference Types
Specifies when C# 8 nullable reference types and non-nullable reference types must be generated. If it is set to Enable, then nullable annotation context will be enabled. If it is set to Disable, then #'#nullable disable' directives will be generated. If it is set to Default, then pre-C# 8.0 classic behavior will be used.
Primitive Default Value Generation
Determines whether Entity Developer should generate initialization for a primitive property based on the database DEFAULT column value.
Context Output
Specifies output for the generated context.
Project
(This property is available in the Visual Studio add-in only) The name of the Visual Studio project where the generation result will be located.
Project Folder
(This property is available in the Visual Studio add-in only) The name of the directory in the Visual Studio project where the generation result will be located.
Destination Folder
(This property is available in the standalone application only) The directory to contain the generation results.
Entities Output
Allows specifying the output folder for the generated entity classes. The value of this property is taken into account during generation only if the File Per Class property is set to True.
Project
(This property is available in the Visual Studio add-in only) The name of the Visual Studio project where the generation result will be located.
Project Folder
(This property is available in the Visual Studio add-in only) The name of the directory in the Visual Studio project where the generation result will be located.
Destination Folder
(This property is available in the standalone application only) The directory to contain the generation results.
File Per Class
Defines whether each model class will be placed into a separate file when generating code. Acceptable values are True or False.
Generate Partial Class
Defines whether for each class of the model a partial class will be generated, in which it will be possible to add code that won't be overwritten by the designer. The property can be used, if File Per Class is set to True. Acceptable values are True or False.
Model Name As Files Prefix
Defines whether to add the model name to the generated file names as a prefix.
Validation Error Messages
Specifies error messages to associate with a validation control if validation fails. If you do not want to use hardcoded error messages (e.g. for the sake of internationalization), you can use error messages stored in the application resources. For this, specify the name of the resource type for error messages in the following format: ResourceType=<type name>. Additionally, the resource name for your error message for the corresponding validator must be equal to the name of a property from the ValidationErrorMessages property.
Email Message
Specifies the error message to associate with a validation control if email validation fails.
Expression Message
Specifies the error message to associate with a validation control if regular expression validation fails.
IPAddress Message
Specifies the error message to associate with a validation control if IPAddress validation fails.
Length Message
Specifies the error message to associate with a validation control if length validation fails.
Numeric Message
Specifies the error message to associate with a validation control if numeric validation fails.
Range Message
Specifies the error message to associate with a validation control if range validation fails.
Required Message
Specifies the error message to associate with a validation control if required validation fails.
Validation Framework
Defines the set of attribute types and its source to be used for validating the property values of generated classes. Acceptable values are EnterpriseLibrary, NHibernateValidator, DataAnnotations, None.