Another scenario where this occurs is when you have a base class and one or more subclasses, where at least one of the subclasses introduce extra properties:
class Folder {
[key]
public string Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
}
// Adds no props, but comes from a different view in the db to Folder:
class SomeKindOfFolder: Folder {
}
// Adds some props, but comes from a different view in the db to Folder:
class AnotherKindOfFolder: Folder {
public string FolderAttributes { get; set; }
}
If these are mapped in the DbContext like below, the "'Invalid column name 'Discriminator'" error occurs when any type based on Folder base type is accessed:
protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{
modelBuilder.Entity<Folder>().ToTable("All_Folders");
modelBuilder.Entity<SomeKindOfFolder>().ToTable("Some_Kind_Of_Folders");
modelBuilder.Entity<AnotherKindOfFolder>().ToTable("Another_Kind_Of_Folders");
}
I found that to fix the issue, we extract the props of Folder to a base class (which is not mapped in OnModelCreating()) like so - OnModelCreating should be unchanged:
class FolderBase {
[key]
public string Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
}
class Folder: FolderBase {
}
class SomeKindOfFolder: FolderBase {
}
class AnotherKindOfFolder: FolderBase {
public string FolderAttributes { get; set; }
}
This eliminates the issue, but I don't know why!