Entity Framework POCO: How to map related properties to a flattened table?

EF doesn't support this. You cannot forward property value from relation to the main table. You must expose navigation property either on Table2 or on Root and map it in the same way as you did it for Table1 .

Thanks to @Ladislav Mrnka pointing out that it was unsupported and that I would need a navigation property, what I decided was that I could have a private navigation property that defers to the Table1. Table2 property and hides the ickyness. So...

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