ManyToManyAssociationMappingConfiguration.MapLeftKey(String[]) Method

Definition

Namespace:

System.Data.Entity.ModelConfiguration.Configuration

Assembly:

EntityFramework.dll

Configures the name of the column(s) for the left foreign key. The left foreign key points to the parent entity of the navigation property specified in the HasMany call.

public System.Data.Entity.ModelConfiguration.Configuration.ManyToManyAssociationMappingConfiguration MapLeftKey (params string[] keyColumnNames);

member this.MapLeftKey : string[] -> System.Data.Entity.ModelConfiguration.Configuration.ManyToManyAssociationMappingConfiguration

Public Function MapLeftKey (ParamArray keyColumnNames As String()) As ManyToManyAssociationMappingConfiguration

Parameters

keyColumnNames

String[]

The foreign key column names. When using multiple foreign key properties, the properties must be specified in the same order that the the primary key properties were configured for the target entity type.

Returns

ManyToManyAssociationMappingConfiguration

The same ManyToManyAssociationMappingConfiguration instance so that multiple calls can be chained.