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    <p>I was actually able to determine the foreign key properties by using the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.metadata.edm.navigationproperty.getdependentproperties.aspx" rel="noreferrer">GetDependentProperties</a> method of the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.metadata.edm.navigationproperty%28v=vs.110%29.aspx" rel="noreferrer">NavigationProperty</a> class. </p> <p>Here is the code that I used (more or less) to get what I needed:</p> <pre><code>object[] GetForeignKeyPropertyValues&lt;TEntity, TRelatedEntity&gt;(TEntity entity, Expression&lt;Func&lt;TEntity, TRelatedEntity&gt;&gt; navigationProperty) { if (entity == null) return new object[] { }; // Find the entity metadata in the object context. // (Assume you have access to the DbContext through the property CurrentDbContext.) var objectContext = (CurrentDbContext as IObjectContextAdapter).ObjectContext; var metadataNamespace = ObjectContextAdapter.GetType().Namespace; var entityIdentity = metadataNamespace + "." + typeof(TEntity).Name; // HACK: This seems to work to retrieve the EntityType for an entity. var entityMetadata = objectContext.MetadataWorkspace.GetItem&lt;EntityType&gt;(entityIdentity, DataSpace.CSpace); // TODO: Verify that the entity metadata was found. // Get the navigation property metadata by parsing the name from the navigation property expression. var navigationPropertyName = GetPropertyName(navigationProperty); var navigationPropertyMetadata = entityMetadata.NavigationProperties.FirstOrDefault(np =&gt; np.Name == navigationPropertyName); // TODO: (JMB) Verify that the navigation property metadata was found. // Extract the foreign key columns from the navigation property. var foreignKeyPropertyMetadatas = navigationPropertyMetadata.GetDependentProperties(); // Create property getters for each foreign key property. var foreignKeyPropertyGetters = foreignKeyPropertyMetadatas .Select(propertyMetadata =&gt; MakePropertyGetter&lt;TEntity&gt;(propertyMetadata.Name)) .ToArray(); // Execute the foreign key property getters to get the foreign key property values for the specified entity. var foreignKeyPropertyValues = foreignKeyPropertyGetters .Select(propertyGetter =&gt; propertyGetter(entity)) .ToArray(); return foreignKeyPropertyValues; } static string GetPropertyName&lt;TEntity, TProperty&gt;(Expression&lt;Func&lt;TEntity, TProperty&gt;&gt; navigationProperty) { var lambda = navigationProperty as LambdaExpression; var member = lambda.Body as MemberExpression; return member.Member.Name; } static Func&lt;TEntity, object&gt; MakePropertyGetter&lt;TEntity&gt;(Type entityType, string propertyName) { var parameterExpression = Expression.Parameter(typeof(TEntity), "entity"); var propertyExpression = Expression.PropertyOrField(parameterExpression, propertyName); var lambdaExpression = Expression.Lambda(propertyExpression, parameterExpression); var lambdaFunction = lambdaExpression.Compile(); return (Func&lt;TEntity, object&gt;)lambdaFunction; } </code></pre>
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