How To Organize Entity Files In A Project

Question

I'm using Entity Framework to connect to our databases and the project is getting clutter with multiple edmx files. I tried to drag them to a Data Models folder that I created, but that broke the project. Is there a way to put the EF model files into a
separate folder of their own?
MCSD .NET developer in Dallas, Texas

Answer 1

Hello DallasSteve,
>> Is there a way to put the EF model files into a separate folder of their own?
For database first and model first approaches, as far as I know, we cannot specify the output directory, EF is in charge of where it puts stuff and where it expects them to be. For your case, my suggestion is that you could place every edmx file to a separate
folder, if your edmx files are already your project, you could create correspondent folders(e.g. you have edmx files: Model1 and Model2, then you could create two folders named Model1 and Model2) and move these edmx files to these folders, so that each edmx
would have itself entity files even there are same name files in other edmx models.
Another approach is to specify these entity files to output to a separate project, for details, you could check this
article.
Regards.
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