EntityFramework custom many to many without navigation property

Question

I want to do many-to-many relation between these objects:

class Flyer { 
     Guid Id; 
     virtual ICollection<Address> Stores; 
}

And:

class Address {
     Guid Id;
 }

Of course these models are simplified.

And I do not want a navigation property to Flyer inside Address because Address is in relation with other objects too. It is possible?

Fluent API only

Answer 1

How are you identifying what the address belongs to if it can belong to multiple different tables? Do you have a Join table? Like a AddressToFlyer Table that establishes the relationship between the two tables?

When I have complex queries that need to take place like this where one table can be used by many tables, I create join tables and typically create views that handle the joins and give me the data what I want so I can just do a select in Entity Framework and not worry about the Navigational property, then implement said view in Entity framework like you would a regular table.