Available Output Settings

The following settings are available for the Entity Framework Core v1. There are two sections, one for the global defaults, which you can edit in the Project Settings Editor of the designer, and one which discusses the settings available per element, and which default setting sets their default value. This way you can easily track which default to set for which element setting.

Defaults

The following default settings and attributes are available, which control the default value for settings available per element.

Settings

These settings are edited using the Project Settings Editor, Output Setting Values tab.

EntityBaseClassNameDefault

This setting specifies the default value for the EntityBaseClassName setting of an entity. Default value: CommonEntityBase

MapUnmappedFieldsAsShadowPropertiesDefault

This setting specifies the default value for the MapUnmappedFieldsAsShadowProperties setting of an entity. Default value: false.

TypedListRowBaseClassNameDefault

This setting specifies the default value for the TypedListRowBaseClassName setting of a typed list. Default value: empty string

Element Settings

The following settings are available per element. These settings are edited on the element's own editor (or the containing element's editor, in the case where the element itself doesn't have a separate editor) on the Code-gen info tab, or on the Project Settings Editor, if the element is the project.

Entity definition settings

EntityBaseClassName

The name of the base class for a generated entity class. The following macros are available: {$Name} for the entity name without group name, {$GroupName} for the name of the group the entity is in, {$FullName} for the group name plus entity name. Sub-types will always inherit from their super-type and not from the class specified. Default value: the value of the default EntityBaseClassNameDefault.

MapUnmappedFieldsAsShadowProperties

This setting controls whether unmapped fields in the target table are mapped as Shadow Properties in the entity mapping (true) or not (false). Setting is ignored on entities which are part of an inheritance hierarchy of type Target per Entity Hierarchy. Default value: the value of the default MapUnmappedFieldsAsShadowPropertiesDefault

Field settings (entity definition field)

UseForOptimisticConcurrencyChecks

This setting controls whether the field is used in optimistic concurrency checks (true) or not (false, default). Default value: false

ForcedValueGenerationPattern

This setting specifies the forced value for ValueGenerationPattern on the mapped target. By default, the setting is set to None, which means the value for ValueGenerationPattern is left to the designer (which means it will emit the proper mapping code automatically for Identity fields). This setting allows you to specify ValueGeneratedOn* calls on field mappings which aren't identity fields. Use this setting with value 'ValueGeneratedOnAddOrUpdate' on timestamp fields combined with setting 'UseForOptimisticConcurrencyChecks' to true for concurrency tokens based on timestamp fields.

Project settings

EmitForeignKeyFields

This setting controls whether a generated entity class will have visible foreign key fields (true, default) or not (false). Default value: true. If set to false, the foreign key fields will be generated as shadow properties.

Typed List definition settings

TypedListRowBaseClassName

The name of the base class for a generated typed list row class. The following macros are available: {$Name} for the typed list name without group name, {$GroupName} for the name of the group the typed list is in, {$FullName} for the group name plus typed list name. Default value: the value of the default TypedListRowBaseClassNameDefault