Here’s a convention you can use in EF 6+ to map selected non-public properties (just add the [Column]
attribute to a property).
In your case, you’d change TypeId to:
[Column]
private int TypeId { get; set; }
In your DbContext.OnModelCreating
, you’ll need to register the convention:
protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{
modelBuilder.Conventions.Add(new NonPublicColumnAttributeConvention());
}
Finally, here’s the convention:
/// <summary>
/// Convention to support binding private or protected properties to EF columns.
/// </summary>
public sealed class NonPublicColumnAttributeConvention : Convention
{
public NonPublicColumnAttributeConvention()
{
Types().Having(NonPublicProperties)
.Configure((config, properties) =>
{
foreach (PropertyInfo prop in properties)
{
config.Property(prop);
}
});
}
private IEnumerable<PropertyInfo> NonPublicProperties(Type type)
{
var matchingProperties = type.GetProperties(BindingFlags.SetProperty | BindingFlags.GetProperty | BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance)
.Where(propInfo => propInfo.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(ColumnAttribute), true).Length > 0)
.ToArray();
return matchingProperties.Length == 0 ? null : matchingProperties;
}
}