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SQL rowversion support by entity framework

My project uses EF (tested with version 4 using self-tracking template and with version 5 using default templates, all database-first) against SQL Server 2012. The database tables have each a ...rowversion... (...timestamp...) column defined....Using EF i...

rowVersion gets mapped to byte[8] in Entityframe work but when manually casting it's byte[18]

I am getting ...rowVersion... from database as ...byte[8]...var rowVersion= new MyContext().Employee.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Id).rowVersion; // suppose above the actual databse values is 0x0000000000038B8C var rowVersionToLong = BitConverter.ToInt64(rowVers...