How do I set a column in SQL Server to varchar(max) using ASP.net EF Codefirst Data Annotations?

ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server, and Entity Framework are used to create a search box.

You don't actually say whether you need/want a 'spider' to index your site "as is" (like Google; which is useful if your searchable content on each page comes from many different tables/objects/entities) or whether you just want to query EF using full-text-search-like syntax to return a collection of Entities?...If you are interesting in the 'spide...

Multiple SQL Server versions in a single ASP.NET application utilizing Entity Framework

I was able to accomplish this by putting each ...edmx... in a separate assembly. Then in the connection string, replace all the ...res://*/...... with ...res://NameOfAssembly/......I can even perform joins between the two entity models (contrary to claims I found in other sources), e.g.:...var oneDb = new Entities2000(); var otherDb = new Entities2...

Data Annotations in Entity Framework Set VarChar StringLength

Use ...ColumnAttribute... to give the datatype...[Column(TypeName = "VARCHAR")] [StringLength(250)] public string Comment { get; set; } ...Or use fluent API...modelBuilder.Entity<MyEntity>() .Property(e => e.Comment).HasColumnType("VARCHAR").HasMaxLength(250);

Entity Framework: Setting correct connection string to SQL Server Compact in ASP.NET MVC 4

|DataDirectory|\App_Data... yields ...App_Data\App_Data..., if I am not incorrect. Try Data Source=|DataDirectory|\MyDatabaseSQLCe.sdf. ...You can test this by dumping ...AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetData("DataDirectory").ToString()... on your webpage....You should grab the toolkit for visual studio when dealing with Sql Server Compact....http://visu...

Does new ASP.NET MVC identity framework work without Entity Framework and SQL Server?

Not that simple. Not that hard either....You'll have to write your custom implementation of:...IUserStore<TUser>...IUserPasswordStore<TUser>...IUserTwoFactorStore<TUser>...IUserClaimStore<TUser>...IRoleStore<TRole>...IUserSecurityStampStore<TUser, string>...IUserRoleStore<TUser, string>...UserManager<TUser>...Then create your own user implementatio...

How to connect to SQL Server using ASP.NET MVC web application?

Code First Approach - You just need to write a code in model after that database and tables will be created. I hope, you have added Entity Framework library in your application. Below is the example of first creating database by using "Code First Approach" after that you can easily do CRUD operation....First create a model. Ex....public class Perso...

asp.net mvc , raw sql : Display data in Views generated using aggregate function

Start by creating view models to represent what you want to display in the view...public class DayTotalVM { public int Day { get; set; } [DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:C}")] public decimal Total { get; set; } } public class SalesVM { [DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:MMMM yyyy}")] public DateTime Date { get; set; } public Lis...

How to insert or update large data into varchar(max) using EF 6

For large files the field can be changed to varbinary(max) and the files can be converted into binary format and inserted into the database. For files that are greater than 1MB,Filestreams provide a better option. Try to visit ...Convert file to binary in C#... for binary conversion.

Specify max length attribute to match varchar(max)

You have two options:...(1) Use ...int.MaxLength... as ...maximumLength... argument of the ...StringLengthAttribute... constructor:...[Required] [StringLength(int.MaxValue, MinimumLength = 3)] public string Body { get; set; } ...(2) Decorate the property additionally with ...MaxLengthAttribute... w/o parameters (the value of the ...StringLengthAttr...

Disable conversion between VARCHAR and NVARCHAR when using Entity Framework over an existing SQL server database

The default data type for ...string... columns is ...nvarchar(MAX)..., you don't have the need to set data type in your columns for changing to ...NVARCHAR(MAX).... Ef has default conventions that Specify it. ...here... is explained for knowing conventions....if you want config generally convention for your models, you can do this:...public class D...