Entity Framework Pitfalls: Non Public Entity Sets Setter

When defining your entity sets in a Code First context (DbContext), you declare your entity sets as properties of the DbSet<T> type. Weird as it may seem, these properties need to be declared with both a public getter and setter. It really doesn’t make much sense, because you wouldn’t want to set these properties from outside the context, but that’s how it is. So, this won’t work:

   1:public DbSet<Product> Products { get; protected set; }

While this does:

   1:public DbSet<Product> Products { get; set; }