How can I tell EF / DbSet to attach to an SQL View and not try to create a table with the same name?

Code first currently doesn't have support for database views so If you want to use recreate databese you must use either your approach, custom linq query with projection to data type (that is common approach) or SqlQuery to execute your SELECT directly.

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