Inheritance EF Code-First

Question

I have a base object that I dont want to be mapped in DB as an entity, I only want the properties to be added to the object that is mapped in the DB :

Not mapped object

Answer 1

Morteza Manavi has a blog post detailing how to do this:

http://weblogs.asp.net/manavi/archive/2011/01/03/inheritance-mapping-strategies-with-entity-framework-code-first-ctp5-part-3-table-per-concrete-type-tpc-and-choosing-strategy-guidelines.aspx

Basically, you'll need to override OnModelCreating in your DbContext and call MapInheritedProperties() for each of the child tables.

protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{
    modelBuilder.Entity<BankAccount>().Map(m =>
    {
        m.MapInheritedProperties();
        m.ToTable("BankAccounts");
    });

    modelBuilder.Entity<CreditCard>().Map(m =>
    {
        m.MapInheritedProperties();
        m.ToTable("CreditCards");
    });            
}