{“error”:”Entity type ‘AspNetUserRoles’ has composite primary key defined with data annotations. To set composite primary key, use fluent API.”}

When a database table has composite keys (multiple columns are in the key) you cannot use the usual key definition

[Key]
[Display(Name = “UserId”)]
public string UserId { get; set; }

[Key]
[Display(Name = “RoleId”)]
public string RoleId { get; set; }

When you run the application you get the error message:

{“error”:”Entity type ‘AspNetUserRoles’ has composite primary key defined with data annotations. To set composite primary key, use fluent API.”}

To declare composite keys, in the fluent API format

In the model declare the keys

public class AspNetUserRoles {

    // Composite primary keys
    // Initialized in ApplicationDbContext.OnModelCreating()
    public object UserId { get; internal set; }
    public object RoleId { get; internal set; }
    ...

In the ApplicationDbContext file add the lines to the OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder builder) method

// Composite primary key
builder.Entity().HasKey(table => new {
   table.UserId,
   table.RoleId
});