EF4: Bug in StoreGeneratedPattern SSDL

Recently at work, I’ve had the pleasure of working on a new project written in ASP.NET MVC2 under .NET 4.0.  Our team has decided to use Entity Framework 4 for data access, and for the most part, we’ve been very pleased with this decision.  One of the things I tend to make use of pretty regularly is default values for columns in SQL server.  In doing this, I’ve encountered a pretty nasty bug in EF4.  Here’s the deal: I have several tables in my application where I add some basic auditing columns, such as CreateDate, CreatedBy, LastUpdatedDate, and LastUpdatedBy. ...
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