http://blogs.msdn.com/alexj/archive/2008/02/26/associations-with-payloads-closing-the-loop.aspxI'm assuming you've read part 1 and part 2 , if not why not? Just kidding, they will make this post a little easier to understand though. I'm going to show you how to create a read-only association with a Payload. Okay so imagine you have this model:en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/alexj/archive/2008/02/26/associations-with-payloads-closing-the-loop.aspx#7898797Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:59:20 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:7898797MSDN Blog Postings » Associations with Payloads - closing the loop<p>PingBack from <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://msdnrss.thecoderblogs.com/2008/02/25/associations-with-payloads-closing-the-loop/">http://msdnrss.thecoderblogs.com/2008/02/25/associations-with-payloads-closing-the-loop/</a></p>http://blogs.msdn.com/alexj/archive/2008/02/26/associations-with-payloads-closing-the-loop.aspx#7901456Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:59:07 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:7901456Matthieu MEZIL<p>Rajouter une &quot;vue&quot; dans le ssdl, il fallait y penser. Je pense que c'est vraiment un excellent exemple</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/alexj/archive/2008/02/26/associations-with-payloads-closing-the-loop.aspx#7936241Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:26:20 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:7936241Hot Topics<p>If you have a many to many relationship in your database, the Entity Data Model wizard will flatten the</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/alexj/archive/2008/02/26/associations-with-payloads-closing-the-loop.aspx#8969046Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:05:23 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8969046Tanveer Badar<p>Your post just made my day. :)</p>