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title: "Saving Enums with Entity Framework Core"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/saving-enums-with-entity-framework-core-sfse7erol
source_url: https://nodogmablog.bryanhogan.net/2018/09/saving-enums-with-entity-framework-core
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published: 2026-05-31T07:47:25.980Z
updated: 2026-05-31T09:08:40.829Z
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# Saving Enums with Entity Framework Core

**[No Dogma Blog \(Bryan Hogan\)](https://daily.dev/sources/bryanhogan)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Entity Framework Core's value conversions feature provides a clean way to persist C# enums to a database as either strings or integers. Using the HasConversion method in OnModelCreating, you can define two-way conversion expressions: one to serialize the enum for storage and one to deserialize it back. The post demonstrates saving a DeliveryPreference enum as a VARCHAR string and an AddressType enum as an INT, including the SQL table definition and the EF Core fluent configuration code.

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