Code First data types and max characters

Question

I noticed that Code First makes from every string a nvarchar data type in the SQL database. And the max amount of characters are set on MAX.

How can I influence this behavior?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 21 '13 at 16:09

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Try this:

[MaxLength(10)]
public string PropertyName {get;set;}

answered Apr 21 '13 at 16:09

Artless

Hi, what about nvarchar? What can I do against that? – Yustme Apr 21 '13 at 16:15
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You could use `[Column(TypeName = "varchar")]`. If you want to set it globally to all string types, see this [page](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5109170/ef-code-first-globally-set-varchar-mapping-over-nvarchar) – Artless Apr 21 '13 at 16:17

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