EF Code First mapping non public properties

in the Contextclass add:

protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)



{

base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);

modelBuilder.Conventions.Add(new NonPublicColumnAttributeConvention());



}
and this is the convention




///

Convention to support binding private or protected properties to EF columns.


///

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;



}

}