IsRowVersion can only be configured for Byte array properties

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IsRowVersion can only be configured for Byte array properties

c# ef-code-first entity-framework entity-framework-6

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I recently upgraded from EntityFramework 5 to 6 via the NuGet updater. Everything seemed to go well and I built and executed my application. When I tried to retrieve the first entity from the database, I received this error:

The property 'UpdatedDate' is not a Byte array. IsRowVersion can only be configured for Byte array properties.

Here is the piece of code it is referring to:

[Timestamp]
public virtual DateTime UpdatedDate { get; set; }

I tried removing the timestamp attribute, but got the same error regardless. How do I fix this so I can run my application with EF6?

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Attributes in EF

If you use [TimeStamp] attribute, then the property should be byte[]
This is then mapped to Rowversion in SQL server

If you want some other field type as a concurrency field. The use the attribute [ConcurrencyCheck]

IsRowVersion can only be configured for Byte array properties

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