Map derived type to the same table in EF

Question

The following simple code example illustrates the scenario in question. I have a Person entity, which is simply mapped to the Person table in the DB. I am using the default Enti

Answer 1

I don't think inheritance is the right answer to this. Is it true that 'PersonDetail' is-a Person? I would choose for creating a PersonDetail class and adding a property in the partial class that points to an instance of the PersonDetail class.

That way you can check on your client side if the PersonDetail is set by the server by just checking if the property != null.