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Disabling Cascade Deletes - EF Core

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Modified on Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 10:53 AM by Administrator Categorized as EF Core

Overview

By default EF Core 3 creates foreign keys with delete cascading enabled. This article provides code to turn this off.

Reusable Code

private void DisableCascadeDeletes(ModelBuilder mb)
{
    var types = mb.Model.GetEntityTypes();

    foreach (var type in types)
    {
        var fkeys = type.GetForeignKeys();

        foreach (var fk in fkeys)
        {
            if (!fk.IsOwnership)
            {
                fk.DeleteBehavior = DeleteBehavior.Restrict;
            }
        }
    }
}

Usage

Within your data model class, include this line of code.
override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder mb)
{
    // Add the next line to your code
    DisableCascadeDeletes(mb);

    // your other code goes here
}

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