Mapped Name

This is an alternative (or additional) name for a column when it appears in the list of columns in a DTO (Data Transfer Object).  The Mapped Name field allows you to map the Artist.Name navigation property from the Album entity to the ArtistName string property in AlbumDto. 

This becomes useful when you are using a library like AutoMapper to produce a profile mapping like this:


Specifying of a mapped name automatically generates an extra column in the list of columns that can be used to define DTO columns from SCHEMA | Data Transfer Objects (DTO) :


Note that even though the selected table is ALBUM, and the Mapped Name is specified in the ARTIST table, the extra column generated as part of the columns in the ALBUM table is because of the foreign key reference the ARTIST table provides.