Using DataAnnotations with Entity Framework

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A buddy class is more or less the direction your code snippet is journeying, except your manually coded partial Person class would have an inner class, like:

[MetadataType(typeof(Person.Metadata))]
public partial class Person {
    private sealed class MetaData {
        [RegularExpression(...)]
        public string Email { get; set; }
    }
}

Or you could have your manually partial Person class and a separate Meta class like:

[MetadataType(typeof(PersonMetaData))]
public partial class Person { }

public class PersonMetaData {
[RegularExpression(...)]
public string Email;
}

These are workarounds and having a mapped Presentation class may be more suitable.

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