C# mvc How to set AutoIncrement on - asp.net-mvc

Hi I am trying to create a new customer record. The primary id customerid is autoincremental column.
When I try to insert a new record I get this error :
Message=Cannot insert explicit value for identity column in table 'Customer' when IDENTITY_INSERT is set to OFF.
This is the same code I am using :
NewCustomer.Name= user.Name;
NewCustomer.Address= user.Address;
NewCustomer.Phone = user.Phone;
NewCustomer.Email= user.Email;
db.Customers.Add(NewCustomer);
db.SaveChanges();
I read somewhere that I have to set autoincrement on, but I am using entity framework and not any direct sql.
Can some one please help how I could turn on autoincrement so I could insert records?

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I think you cannot do that, considering that your DepartamentID is the PK of the table Departament, so you have to drop the old field and create a new one, something like this
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When we call db.saveChanges() it always tries to use 0 as the primary key column value.
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We had developed in the past some sites, from company presentation sites to eshops, in classic asp. All of these was developed in multilingual environment (el, en) most of them. From database view we had choose the following schema. For example, for products table we have two related tables one with no lingual depended fields and one for lingual depended fields with one to many relation.
CREATE TABLE ref_language (
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PRIMARY KEY (Code)
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CREATE TABLE app_product (
Id Int IDENTITY NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (Id)
);
CREATE TABLE app_product_translation (
ProductId Int NOT NULL,
LanguageCode Char(2) NOT NULL,
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FOREIGN KEY (ProductId) REFERENCES app_product(Id),
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);
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I have a table 'UserLogin' which contains the columns: id and userid. Suppose I want to show userid as 'user' in Gridview then we write query in sql
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Usually you specify different Header text for that column within your GridView control.
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