Self-referencing many-to-many recursive relationship code first Entity Framework

class Member

{

    public virtual IList<Member> Friends { get; set; }

    [Key]

    public int MemberId { get; set; }

    public string Name{ get; set; }

}

//By convention, Code First will take uni-directional associations as one to many.

//Therefore you need to use fluent API to let Code First

//know that you want to have a many to many self referencing association:

protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)

{

    modelBuilder.Entity<Member>().HasMany(m => m.Friends).WithMany();

}

//Note: There is a known bug in CTP5 that won't let you customize the join table column

//names in this scenario.