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How to fix type names conflicts in Dynamic Data

We're working in a Dynamic Data project that will handle entities coming from two different namespaces: myModel.Abby and myModel.Ben.

whose classes are:

Abby

myModel.Abby.Car

myModel.Abby.Lollipop

Ben

myModel.Ben.Car

myModel.Ben.Apple

So myModel.Abby.Car and myModel.Ben.Car are homonym. when I try to register both ObjectContext's, an exception is thrown telling us that there are type name conflicts between the mentioned classes (although the types belong to different namespaces).

How can we overcome type-name conflicts, caused by repeated type names among different namespaces?

Solution

  • Here is a workaround from MSDN

    The problem is a naming conflict between types in 2 different contexts. To get around this you can rename one of the classes specifying the TableNameAttribute on your entity.

    Hope it helps others. : )