Getting mapped column names of properties in entity framework

Question

in my project I use Entity Framework 6. I have these entities:

   public class Person
    {
        [Key]
        public int Id { get; set; }

        public         


        

Answer 1

You can get to the actual string "Person_Id" from the storage model, but you cannot identify that property/column as the foreign key. For that you would need Person_Id to exist in the conceptual model. I still don't quite understand why you wouldn't want it in the model, but here's how you would get it from the storage metadata:

using ( var context = new YourEntities() )
{
  var objectContext = ( ( IObjectContextAdapter )context ).ObjectContext;
  var storageMetadata = ( (EntityConnection)objectContext.Connection ).GetMetadataWorkspace().GetItems( DataSpace.SSpace );
  var entityProps = ( from s in storageMetadata where s.BuiltInTypeKind == BuiltInTypeKind.EntityType select s as EntityType );
  var personRightStorageMetadata = ( from m in entityProps where m.Name == "PersonRight" select m ).Single();
  foreach ( var item in personRightStorageMetadata.Properties )
  {
      Console.WriteLine( item.Name );
  }
}

Answer 2

For EF6 I could only find the mappings in DataSpace.CSSpace (EntityTypeMapping will map entities to tables, and ScalarPropertyMapping will map scalar properties to columns):

using System.Data.Entity.Core.Mapping;
using System.Data.Entity.Core.Metadata.Edm;

// ...

using ( var db = new YourContext() )
{
  var metadataWorkspace = ((System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure.IObjectContextAdapter)db)
  .ObjectContext.MetadataWorkspace;

  var itemCollection = ((StorageMappingItemCollection)metadataWorkspace
  .GetItemCollection(DataSpace.CSSpace));

  var entityMappings = itemCollection.OfType<EntityContainerMapping>().Single()
  .EntitySetMappings.ToList();

  var entityMapping = (EntityTypeMapping)entityMappings
    .Where(e => e.EntitySet.ElementType.FullName == typeof(TEntity).FullName)
    //or .Where(e => e.EntitySet.ElementType.Name == "YourEntityName")
    .Single().EntityTypeMappings.Single();

  var fragment = entityMapping.Fragments.Single();
  var dbTable = fragment.StoreEntitySet;

  Console.WriteLine($"Entity {entityMapping.EntityType.FullName} is mapped to table [{dbTable.Schema}].[{dbTable.Name}]");

  var scalarPropsMap = entityMapping.Fragments.Single()
  .PropertyMappings.OfType<ScalarPropertyMapping>();

  foreach(var prop in scalarPropsMap)
    Console.WriteLine($"Property {prop.Property.Name} maps to Column {prop.Column.Name}");

}

Out of curiosity I use the code above because System.Data.SqlClient.SqlBulkCopy requires mapping between entity properties and table columns.