Entity Framework and SQL Server adds blanks in strings?

I have notice that when I read back MS SQL columns of type nchar

NCHAR is fixed length. If an INSERTed or UPDATEed value has a smaller length, then spaces are added. Naturally you read back with additional blanks.

This happens when the database is set up in such a way to add blanks.

if you do not want fixed length strings, don't use a fixed length field type. Instead of NCHAR use NVARCHAR. The VAR in there indicates variable length.

TomTom's answer is correct but if you were like me you may still be having an issue.

I changed my table column to varchar(10) but was still having the spacing issue. I found that my issue was also with my Entity Context definition. Make sure in your .modelBuilder.Entity<your_table>() does not have the property .IsFixedLength() on it. I took that out and that fixed my issue.

I have two extension methods that will trim nchar fields within entities. The first will trim a single entity, and the second uses the first to trim a list of entities.

public static T TrimSingleEntity<T>(this T entity)    {        if (entity == null) return entity;        var props = entity.GetType()                .GetProperties(BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Public)                .Where(prop => prop.PropertyType == typeof(string))                .Where(prop => prop.GetIndexParameters().Length == 0)                .Where(prop => prop.CanWrite && prop.CanRead);        foreach (var prop in props)        {            var value = (string)prop.GetValue(entity, null);            if (value == null) continue;            value = value.Trim();            prop.SetValue(entity, value, null);        }        return entity;    }public static List<T> TrimEntityList<T>(this List<T> entityList)    {        foreach (var entity in entityList) TrimSingleEntity(entity);        return entityList;    }