Múltiples bases de datos con modelos ligeramente cambiantes. ¿Cómo permito que Entity Framework elimine columnas en tiempo de ejecución?

Bien, construí esta cosa desagradable que permite eliminar columnas de las tablas en tiempo de ejecución.

1. Deberá agregar una sobrecarga de constructor a su DbContext (*.edmx ->*.Context.tt ->*.Context.cs ) como:

public partial class EcomEntities : DbContext
{
    public EcomEntities(DbConnection connection)
        : base(connection, true)
    {
    }

    public EcomEntities(string connectionString)
        : base(connectionString)
    {
    }

2. Necesitará un cambiador de conexión de base de datos (estoy codificando parámetros explícitamente aquí para mayor claridad, uno normalmente los obtendría de SystemToDatabaseMapping ). ColumnsToRemove tiene nombres de tablas y columnas que deben eliminarse, EF connectionString es propio explicativo .

public void ChangeConnection(SystemToDatabaseMapping systemToDatabaseMapping)
{  
    if (systemToDatabaseMapping.ColumnsToRemove != null)
        {
            var entityConnection = EntityConnectionExtensions.Create(
                new List<ColumnsToRemove> { new ColumnsToRemove("QUOTE_HOUSE", "UPRN"), new ColumnsToRemove("QUOTE_HOUSE", "INSIGHT_DATA") },
                systemToDatabaseMapping.ConnectionString);
            this.Ecom = new EcomEntities(entityConnection);
        }
        else
        {
            this.Ecom = new EcomEntities(systemToDatabaseMapping.ConnectionString);
        }
 ....
}

Y luego el tipo que realmente hace cosas desagradables como eliminar nodos de los xml de mapeo de entidades, antes de enviarlos a MetadataWorkspace

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data.Common;
using System.Data.Entity.Core.EntityClient;
using System.Data.Entity.Core.Mapping;
using System.Data.Entity.Core.Metadata.Edm;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Linq;

public static class EntityConnectionExtensions
{
    public static IEnumerable<XElement> ElementsAnyNS<T>(this IEnumerable<T> source, string localName)
        where T : XContainer
    {
        return source.Elements().Where(e => e.Name.LocalName == localName);
    }

    public static IEnumerable<XElement> ElementsAnyNS(this XContainer source, string localName)
    {
        return source.Elements().Where(e => e.Name.LocalName == localName);
    }

    private static void RemoveNodes(XElement element, List<ColumnsToRemove> tableAndColumn)
    {
        if (element.Attribute("Name") != null && tableAndColumn.Any(oo => oo.Table == element.Attribute("Name").Value) ||
            element.Attribute("StoreEntitySet") != null && tableAndColumn.Any(oo => oo.Table == element.Attribute("StoreEntitySet").Value))
        {
            var matchingSelectParts = tableAndColumn.Where(oo => element.Value.Contains(string.Format("\"{0}\".\"{1}\" AS \"{1}\"", oo.Table, oo.Column))).ToList();
            if (matchingSelectParts.Any())
            {
                foreach (var matchingSelectPart in matchingSelectParts)
                {
                    var definingQuery = element.ElementsAnyNS("DefiningQuery").Single();
                    definingQuery.Value = definingQuery.Value.Replace(string.Format(", \n\"{0}\".\"{1}\" AS \"{1}\"", matchingSelectPart.Table, matchingSelectPart.Column), "");
                }
            }
            else
            {
                var nodes = element.Nodes()
                    .Where(o =>
                        o is XElement
                        && ((XElement) o).Attribute("Name") != null
                        && tableAndColumn.Any(oo => ((XElement) o).Attribute("Name").Value == oo.Column));
                foreach (var node in nodes.ToList())
                {
                    node.Remove();
                }
            }
        }
    }

    public static EntityConnection Create(List<ColumnsToRemove> tablesAndColumns, string connString)
    {
        var modelNameRegex = new Regex(@".*metadata=res:\/\/\*\/([a-zA-Z.]*).csdl|.*");
        var model = modelNameRegex.Matches(connString).Cast<Match>().SelectMany(o => o.Groups.Cast<Group>().Skip(1).Where(oo => oo.Value != "")).Select(o => o.Value).First();

        var conceptualReader = XmlReader.Create(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream(model + ".csdl"));
        var mappingReader = XmlReader.Create(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream(model + ".msl"));
        var storageReader = XmlReader.Create(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream(model + ".ssdl"));

        var conceptualXml = XElement.Load(conceptualReader);
        var mappingXml = XElement.Load(mappingReader);
        var storageXml = XElement.Load(storageReader);

        foreach (var entitySet in new[] {storageXml, conceptualXml}.SelectMany(xml => xml.Elements()))
        {
            if (entitySet.Attribute("Name").Value == "ModelStoreContainer")
            {
                foreach (var entityContainerEntitySet in entitySet.Elements())
                {
                    RemoveNodes(entityContainerEntitySet, tablesAndColumns);
                }
            }

            RemoveNodes(entitySet, tablesAndColumns);
        }

        foreach (var entitySet in mappingXml.Elements().ElementAt(0).Elements())
        {
            if (entitySet.Name.LocalName == "EntitySetMapping")
            {
                foreach (var entityContainerEntitySet in entitySet.Elements().First().Elements())
                {
                    RemoveNodes(entityContainerEntitySet, tablesAndColumns);
                }
            }

            RemoveNodes(entitySet, tablesAndColumns);
        }

        var storageCollection = new StoreItemCollection(new [] {storageXml.CreateReader()});
        var conceptualCollection = new EdmItemCollection(new[] { conceptualXml.CreateReader() });
        var mappingCollection = new StorageMappingItemCollection(conceptualCollection, storageCollection, new[] {mappingXml.CreateReader()});

        var workspace = new MetadataWorkspace();

        workspace.RegisterItemCollection(conceptualCollection);
        workspace.RegisterItemCollection(storageCollection);
        workspace.RegisterItemCollection(mappingCollection);

        var connectionData = new EntityConnectionStringBuilder(connString);
        var connection = DbProviderFactories
            .GetFactory(connectionData.Provider)
            .CreateConnection();
        connection.ConnectionString = connectionData.ProviderConnectionString;

        return new EntityConnection(workspace, connection);
    }
}

public class ColumnsToRemove
{
    public ColumnsToRemove(string table, string column)
    {
        Table = table;
        Column = column;
    }

    public string Table { get; set; }
    public string Column { get; set; }
}

public class SystemToDatabaseMapping
{
    public string ConnectionString { get; set; }
    public List<ColumnsToRemove> ColumnsToRemove  { get; set; }
}

Espero que esto te ahorre algo de tiempo.