EF 4.1 RC Code First - Mapping to existing database & specifying foreign key name

Question

I have two classes. A Company has a County set against it:

public class Company
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string CompanyName { get; set; }
    public Country HomeCountry { get; set; }
}

public class Country
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Code { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

I am trying to map to an existing database where the Company table contains the foreign key of the Country record. So I presumably need to tell code first the name of the foreign key column.

Below is the complete code example. It's currently failing with different exceptions based on different things that I try. There's seems to be a lack of cohesive documentation on this as yet.

So using Code First Fluent API how do I define the name of the foreign key column?

Test app:

Create database as follows: CREATE DATABASE CodeFirst; GO

Use CodeFirst

create table Companies
(
    Id int identity(1,1) not null,
    HomeCountryId int not null,
    Name varchar(20) not null,
    constraint PK_Companies primary key clustered (Id)
)

create table Countries
(
   Id                    int identity(1,1) not null
,  Code                  varchar(4)        not null                
,  Name                  varchar(20)       not null                
,  constraint PK_Countries primary key clustered (Id)         
)

alter table Companies
  add
     constraint FK_Company_HomeCountry foreign key (HomeCountryId)
        references Countries (Id) on delete no action

Now run the following C# app:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Data.Entity.ModelConfiguration;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
using System.Data.Entity;
using System.Data;

namespace CodeFirstExistingDatabase
{

    class Program
    {
        private const string ConnectionString = @"Server=.\sql2005;Database=CodeFirst;integrated security=SSPI;";

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {

            // Firstly, add a country record, this works fine.
            Country country = new Country();
            country.Code = "UK";
            country.Name = "United Kingdom";

            MyContext myContext = new MyContext(ConnectionString);
            myContext.Countries.Add(country);
            myContext.Entry(country).State = EntityState.Added;
            myContext.SaveChanges();
            Console.WriteLine("Saved Country");

            // Now insert a Company record
            Company company = new Company();
            company.CompanyName = "AccessUK";
            company.HomeCountry = myContext.Countries.First(e => e.Code == "UK");

            myContext.Companies.Add(company);
            myContext.Entry(company).State = EntityState.Added;
            myContext.Entry(country).State = EntityState.Unchanged;
            myContext.SaveChanges();

            Console.WriteLine("Saved Company"); // If I can get here I'd he happy!

        }
    }

    public class MyContext
        : DbContext
    {
        public DbSet<Company> Companies { get; set; }

        public DbSet<Country> Countries { get; set; }

        public MyContext(string connectionString)
            : base(connectionString)
        {
            Database.SetInitializer<MyContext>(null);
            Configuration.LazyLoadingEnabled = false;
            Configuration.ProxyCreationEnabled = false;
        }
        protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
        {
            modelBuilder.Configurations.Add(new CountryConfiguration());
            modelBuilder.Configurations.Add(new CompanyConfiguration());

            base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);
        }
    }

    public class CompanyConfiguration
        : EntityTypeConfiguration<Company>
    {

        public CompanyConfiguration()
            : base()
        {

            HasKey(p => p.Id);
            Property(p => p.Id)
                .HasColumnName("Id")
                .HasDatabaseGeneratedOption(DatabaseGeneratedOption.Identity)
                .IsRequired();
            Property(p => p.CompanyName)
                .HasColumnName("Name")
                .IsRequired();
            ToTable("Companies");
        }

    }

    public class CountryConfiguration
        : EntityTypeConfiguration<Country>
    {

        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="CountryConfiguration"/> class.
        /// </summary>
        public CountryConfiguration()
            : base()
        {

            HasKey(p => p.Id);
            Property(p => p.Id)
                .HasColumnName("Id")
                .HasDatabaseGeneratedOption(DatabaseGeneratedOption.Identity)
                .IsRequired();
            Property(p => p.Code)
                .HasColumnName("Code")
                .IsRequired();
            Property(p => p.Name)
                .HasColumnName("Name")
                .IsRequired();

            ToTable("Countries");
        }

    }

    public class Company
    {
        public int Id { get; set; }
        public string CompanyName { get; set; }
        public Country HomeCountry { get; set; }
    }

    public class Country
    {
        public int Id { get; set; }
        public string Code { get; set; }
        public string Name { get; set; }
    }
}

The above fails with the following when saving the country: Invalid column name 'HomeCountry_Id

Any help would be very much appreciated!!

Thanks, Paul.

Answer 1

public CompanyConfiguration()
{
    //...
    HasRequired(x => x.HomeCountry).WithMany()
        .Map(x => x.MapKey("HomeCountryId"));
}

Answer 2

We are moving a Web Forms app to MVC3 using Code First against an existing db without any problems. Here are 2 sample Models and the DbContext I'm using. prDepartments & prCategories map to tables in the db and ApplicationDBContext matches the connection string in Web.config

The DeptID field in prCategory is a Foreign Key to prDepartment - Everything works great

public class prCategory
{
    [Key]
    public int CatgID { get; set; }
    public int DeptID { get; set; }
    [Required(ErrorMessage="Category Description Is Required")]
    [DisplayName("Desc Name")]
    [CssClass("ui-Field-Name")]
    public string Description { get; set; }
    public string Route { get; set; }
    public string OrderBy { get; set; }
    public virtual prDepartment Department { get; set; }
    public virtual List<prProduct> prProducts { get; set; }
}

public class prDepartment
{
    [Key]
    public int DeptID { get; set; }
    [Required(ErrorMessage = "Department Description Is Required")]
    [RequiredMessage("This is the Required Message")]
    public string Description { get; set; }
    public string Route { get; set; }
    public string OrderBy { get; set; }

    public virtual List<prCategory> prCategories { get; set; }
}

    public class ApplicationDbContext : DbContext
{
        public DbSet<prDepartment> prDepartments { get; set; }
        public DbSet<prCategory> prCategories { get; set; }
        public DbSet<prProduct> prProducts { get; set; }
}