EF Table Splitting The Opposite of Entity Splitting

Posted by: Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., on 08 Aug 2009 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

There’s an Entity Framework mapping that I have paid very little attention to because I didn’t realize it was possible. It was possible, just not obvious or easy in VS2008 SP1.  Thanks to Adam Cogan, who asked a question about this feature, I’ve discovered that it gets a lot more usable in EF4. The mapping is Table Splitting. You may be familiar with Entity Splitting, where one Entity maps to two different tables. My classic example of this is where I have these two tables...

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