MVC 5 Scaffolding with inheritance uses the wrong entity set

Question

With MVC 5 and EF 6.1 I am using a simple inheritance hierarchy, where class Student inherits from class Person. For both classes I have an entity set (DbSet property) in my database context:

public class DatabaseContext : DbContext
{
    public DbSet<Person> Persons { get; set; }
    public DbSet<Student> Students { get; set; }
}

Now when I ask the scaffolder to generate a controller for Student, the subclass, it uses the Persons entity set, leading to statements such as

    Student student = db.Persons.Find(id);

where the compiler obviously complains that it cannot just convert any Person to a Student.

Is there a way to make sure that the scaffolder uses the correct entity set (Students in this case)?

Note that removing the Persons entity set is not a good solution, because there are other controllers that need that.

Answer 1

Use find and replace to change all occurrences in the Controller class of the parent DBSet to the child DBSet eg change Persons to Students.

As you probably know (as I think you raised it) Microsoft have confirmed this is a known bug http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedbackdetail/view/945937/mvc-5-scaffolding-with-inheritance-uses-the-wrong-entity-set but they won't be fixing it.