Rename Entity Framework T4 Template Generated Class Names?

Question

I have a database with a very large number of tables which unfortunately have been named with no standard convention whatsoever:

• TableName
• anotherTableName
• YETANOTHERTABLENAME
• Garbage_Table

I am using Entity Framework with the standard T4 Code Generation template to create the POCO classes in C#

Is there a best practice I can follow which lets me incorporate my own convention to name these tables in the C# app without having to touch anything in SQL? The auto-generated classes look like:

• TableNames.cs
• anotherTableNames.cs
• YETANOTHERTABLENAMEs.cs
• Garbage_Tables.cs

I would like to have some sort of a wrapper:

• CleanTableName => TableName
• CleanAnotherTableName => anotherTableName
• CleanYetAnotherTableName => YETANOTHERTABLENAME
• CleanGarbageTable => Garbage_Table

One approach would be to just create wrapper classes?.. Any ideas?

Answer 1

If you go to your edmx file you can click on each of the entities and rename them in there (Entity Set Name & Name in the properties window). Then if your regenerate the classes created by the T4 template your classes will have the new names.