Entity Framework 4.1 code first approach: how to define length of properties

Question

As the title implies:

how is it possible to tell Entity Framework 4.1 in code first approach, that i do want some properties (in particular of type string) to have a length of 256, or nvarchar(max), or...

So if this is for example my model

public class Book{
   public string Title { get; set; } //should be 256 chars
   public string Description {get;set} //should be nvarchar(max)
}

how could it be defined?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

In EF4.1 RTW default length is nvarchar(max) for SQL Server and nvarchar(4000) for SQL CE. To change the length use either StringLength or MaxLength annotations or fluent mapping HasMaxLength:

[StringLength(256)]
public string Title { get; set; }

Or

[MaxLength(256)]
public string Title { get; set; }

Or

modelBuilder.Entity<Book>()
            .Property(p => p.Title)
            .HasMaxLength(256);