Problem with Navigation Property naming convention in EDMX

Question

My Foreign Key Name in SQL is

FK_Employee_Departmemt_Source FK_Employee_Departmemt_Status

but when i add Employee and Department table in EDMX, Entity Framework automatically change their names to

Department Department1

I want it to be remain the same, Kindly help.

Thanks

I made a basic .net console app for this https://github.com/timabell/ef-edmx-nav-namer — Tim Abell, Aug 13 '15 at 15:52
try this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12937193/improve-navigation-property-names-when-reverse-engineering-a-database — Ashutosh Singh, Dec 03 '15 at 16:23

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 28 '11 at 13:09

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You want it to remain FK_Employee_Departmemt_Status? You should really read something about naming conventions in .NET. Never mind as I know you cannot change this behavior and you must modify names manually after updating from database. Moreover in this case you have a big change you will have to do it after each update of the entity containing that FK.

answered Sep 28 '11 at 13:09

Ladislav Mrnka

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Actually renaming a Navigation property persists across updates. I have done it: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6203308/navigation-properties-on-join-tables-in-entity-framework – Neil N Sep 28 '11 at 14:25
@Neil: It persists across "some" updates but not across all. I saw that in my own project and many other developers report the same issue. Sometime designer decides to rename silently property back to `XXX1` – Ladislav Mrnka Sep 28 '11 at 14:38

Problem with Navigation Property naming convention in EDMX

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