Entity Framework Code First Date field creation

Question

I am using Entity Framework Code First method to create my database table. The following code creates a DATETIME column in the database, but I want to create a DATE column.

[DataType(DataType.Date)]
[DisplayFormatAttribute(ApplyFormatInEditMode = true, DataFormatString = "{0:d}")]
public DateTime ReportDate { get; set; }

How can I create a column of type DATE, during table creation?

Answer 1

The EF6 version of David Roth's answer is as follows:

public class DataTypePropertyAttributeConvention 
    : PrimitivePropertyAttributeConfigurationConvention<DataTypeAttribute>
{
    public override void Apply(ConventionPrimitivePropertyConfiguration configuration, 
        DataTypeAttribute attribute)
    {
        if (attribute.DataType == DataType.Date)
        {
            configuration.HasColumnType("Date");
        }
    }
}

Register this as before:

protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{
     base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);

     modelBuilder.Conventions.Add(new DataTypePropertyAttributeConvention());
}

This has the same outcome as Tyler Durden's approach, except that it's using an EF base class for the job.