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I am learning EF and came across the definition of a Complex Type:
"...used to define common properties among various entities."
This sounds exactly like factoring out shared state from a class and moving it into a base class. My question is – is this inheritance from EF’s perspective ? I know that inheritance is supported in EF and that there are 3 ways to acheive it, but Complex Type sounds like it’s separate from this. Is it ?
Thanks
No, it’s not inheritance. ComplexType is more like a struct. It lumps a bunch of scalar properties together with value semantics.
You can do inheritance in the EF, yes, but nothing can inherit from a ComplexType.