// Entity Framework Extensions

// Doc: https://entityframework-extensions.net/ignore-on-merge-insert-expression

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// @nuget: EntityFramework

// @nuget: Z.EntityFramework.Extensions

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using System;

using System.Linq;

using System.Data.Entity;

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public class Program

{

    public static void Main()

    {

        // IgnoreOnMergeInsertExpression: Gets or sets columns to ignore when the `BulkMerge` method executes the `insert` statement.

        using (var context = new EntityContext())

        {

            var list = context.Customers.ToList();

            list.Add(new Customer() { CustomerID =555, Name ="Customer_C", Description = "NOT_HERE", IsActive = false});

            context.BulkMerge(list, options => 

            {

                options.IgnoreOnMergeInsertExpression = customer => new {customer.CustomerID,  customer.Description};

            });

        }

        using (var context = new EntityContext())

        {

            FiddleHelper.WriteTable(context.Customers.ToList());    

        }

    }

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    public class EntityContext : DbContext

    {

        public EntityContext() : base(FiddleHelper.GetConnectionStringSqlServer())

        {

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        }

        public DbSet<Customer> Customers { get; set; }

    }

    public class Customer

    {

        public int CustomerID { get; set; }

        public string Name { get; set; }

        public string Description { get; set; }

        public Boolean IsActive { get; set; }

    }

}