Mapping non-public members
A well-encapsulated domain model does not contain just public members. The problem is that Entity Framework automatically maps public properties, but does not do so for non-public ones. In this recipe, we will see how we can map non-public properties of entities, so that Entity Framework recognizes them.
Getting ready
We will be using the NuGet Package Manager to install the Entity Framework Core 1 package, Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore
. We will also be using a SQL Server database to store the data, so we will also need Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer
.
Finally, xunit
is the package we will be using for the unit tests, and dotnet-text-xunit
adds tooling support for Visual Studio. Note that the UnitTests
project is ...
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