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                                            Arthur Vickers

Document that IEntityTypeConfiguration.Configure() is not fired for entities without default constructor

@apostnov How are you telling EF to use the `IEntityTypeConfiguration` classes you are creating? Can you show your `OnModelCreating` code?

Document that IEntityTypeConfiguration.Configure() is not fired for entities without default constructor

**EF Team Triage:** Closing this issue as the requested additional details have not been provided and we have been unable to reproduce it. *BTW this is a canned response and...

Document that IEntityTypeConfiguration.Configure() is not fired for entities without default constructor

@apostnov You are using `modelBuilder.ApplyConfigurationsFromAssembly(typeof(Context).Assembly);`. This will only create configuration instances that have a default constructor.

Document that IEntityTypeConfiguration.Configure() is not fired for entities without default constructor

@apostnov I'll move this to the docs repo to track documenting this. If ApplyConfigurationsFromAssembly were to do this, then what value would it pass to the constructor?

Document that IEntityTypeConfiguration.Configure() is not fired for entities without default constructor

@apostnov This would only work if there is a non-public parameterless constructor that could be called. (Have you verified that this doesn't work already?) I think the main problem here...

Document that required columns are created nullable when table splitting

> Is this "how it's supposed to work"? You're saying that we need to just know (or be told) to run a query or write some special-purpose code every time...

Improve documentation on how to write an EF Core provider

Suggestion from @ErikEJ on https://github.com/dotnet/efcore/issues/20793#issuecomment-621943308 > It would lower the barrier to have a "template/null" provider to use as a starting point. But of course it can quickly become stale.

Improve documentation on how to write an EF Core provider

If we put it in the main repo, then it would evolve along with the other providers _and_ there will still always be a branch/tag to get the snapshot of...

Improve documentation on how to write an EF Core provider

Yeah, that would be ideal.

Improve documentation on how to write an EF Core provider

@ErikEJ We discussed this and we're thinking that we could try this out on https://github.com/efcore first to see what it looks like and how it evolves. We could potentially move...