Resolving naming convention conflict between entities in EF4 and our database standards?

Sure there is. There is T4 template which converts your model to SQL DDL scripts. You can make a copy of this template and put your own logic for name generation into the new copy.

After that you just need to set this template in your designer (DDL Generation Template property) and run Generate Database from Model ...

You can do it . You need to implement a custom model builder to map your entities with relevant tables and relevant columns. You can override OnModelCreating function to build a custome model by adding this function to your context class.

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