Is there a “database level” method of stopping EF 4.2 adding spaces to autogenerated table and column names?

Question

I'm using Entity Framework 4.2 in code-only "mode". I'm letting it autogenerate my database from the model.

However, it's adding spaces to my table and column names based on title-casing - e.g. a CustomerOrder class is mapped to a [Customer Orders] table and a ProductNumber property is mapped to a [Product Number] field.

Is there any way of preventing this from happening - short of configuring every table and property name via the Fluent API (which I know how to do)?

Is this a new 4.2 thing?

Answer 1

You can override the OnModelCreating of your DataContext and change the conventions used by entity framework... there may be a convention of adding spaces before upper-case letters. Remove the convention and you are done.

The conventions are inside the modelBuilder object passed as argument to that method. It has a Conventions property that you can inspect, and see if the convention exists there.