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    <p>I've been looking at ways of hacking something together to populate the edmx with the meta data from the database.</p> <p>The summary and long description edmx properties are stored in elements under the EntityType element.</p> <pre><code>&lt;EntityType Name="EntityName"&gt; &lt;!-- Without this element classes are typically generated with "No Metadata Documentation available." --&gt; &lt;Documentation&gt; &lt;Summary&gt;Entity Summary&lt;/Summary&gt; &lt;LongDescription&gt;Entity Long Description&lt;/LongDescription&gt; &lt;/Documentation&gt; &lt;Key&gt; &lt;PropertyRef Name="Id" /&gt; &lt;/Key&gt; &lt;Property Name="Id" Type="String" Nullable="false" MaxLength="25" Unicode="false" FixedLength="true" /&gt; &lt;!-- Lots of other properties --&gt; &lt;/EntityType&gt; </code></pre> <p>The relevant section of the edmx file, the Store Schema Definition Language (SSDL), is created by <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb302474.aspx" rel="nofollow">System.Data.Entity.Design.EntityStoreSchemaGenerator.GenerateStoreMetadata()</a>. Or at least this is the case with EdmGen.</p> <p>I'm going to see if the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.entity.design.entitystoreschemagenerator.storeitemcollection.aspx" rel="nofollow">EntityStoreSchemaGenerator.StoreItemCollection</a> can be modified before being used by EntityStoreSchemaGenerator.WriteStoreSchema(...) to output the XML.</p> <p><strong>Update</strong></p> <p>Well that was annoying. <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.metadata.edm.documentation.aspx" rel="nofollow">System.Data.Metadata.Edm.Documentation</a> is sealed and only has an internal constructor. Both properties of interest can only be set internally as well. So it seems like a dead end approach.</p>
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