Ignoring all properties but some in Entity Framework 6

Question

I want to persist some data on a database using Entity Framework.
I have some bigger POCOs but I want to store some of the properties only.

I know that I can a

Answer 1

You can mark individual properties as NotMapped within the class itself.

public class MyPoco
{
    public int Id { get; set; }

    [NotMapped]
    public string Name { get; set; }

    public int SomeSpecialId { get; set; }
}

Doesn't solve your issue of 'ignore everything but this' but might make it obvious what is and isn't included.