IT:AD:EF/CodeFirst:HowTo:Work with Enums

• Enum support was introduced in EF5 (VS2012 targets it already)
• Enums can be mapped to byte, int16, int32, Int64, SByte

using System.Data.Entity;

enum Sex {Undefined, Unknown, Male, Female}

public Person { 
  Sex Sex {get;set;}
}

Done. Works as one would expect. Saves to a db table with an int or byte column. Transparent.

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/hh859576.aspx