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When you have an Association where End 2 isn't set to "Generate related property", the property-name isn't saved - the name reverts to the default every time you save/load the model.

For that matter, I don't know why the disabled end of a property is displayed on the diagram at all? I know it's grayed out, but if it's disabled, it won't result in any code, schema or mapping anyway, so how is it relevant?

Could we have an option to disable them perhaps?

It is greyed out to identify that there is no corresponding property. This is a designed behaviour.

I realize this is designed behavior, but I don't understand what relevance it has - since the property is not part of my model, why would I need to see it on the model diagram?

In my world, these diagrams serve as documentation as well as for code-generation - for documentation-purposes, I don't like to have non-existent properties displayed on my diagrams, I find it misleading.

I wish you would add an option to hide them - but at least, could you have the names save properly? Currently, I'm ending up with a lot of "Item1, Item2, Item3" properties on my diagrams, which looks really bad.

Relation property really exists in the object model but doesn't take part in code generation and serialization. That's why it is displayed on the model diagram.

Shalex wrote:Relation property really exists in the object model but doesn't take part in code generation and serialization.

No, the relation exists (and is indicated by the association connector) - the relation property does not exist. You're not even saving it's name.

This behaviour will be changed starting from the next build:

• The navigation property will not be displayed on the diagram and in Model Explorer if 'Generate' is set to false for the appropriate association end

We will post here when the corresponding build of Entity Developer is available for download.

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Looks good! Thanks for addressing this!