Add documentation for view mapping.

Fixes #480
Fixes #2138

entity-framework/core/modeling/entity-types.md

@@ -72,3 +72,14 @@ Rather than specifying the schema for each table, you can also define the defaul
 [!code-csharp[Main](../../../samples/core/Modeling/FluentAPI/DefaultSchema.cs?name=DefaultSchema&highlight=3)]
 
 Note that setting the default schema will also affect other database objects, such as sequences.
+
+## View mapping
+
+Entity types can be mapped to database views using the Fluent API.
+
+> [!Note]
+> EF will assume that the referenced view already exists in the database, it will not create it automatically in a migration.
+
+[!code-csharp[Main](../../../samples/core/Modeling/FluentAPI/ViewNameAndSchema.cs?name=ViewNameAndSchema&highlight=1)]
+
+ Mapping to a view will remove the default table mapping, but the entity type can also be mapped to a table explicitly. In this case the query mapping will be used for queries and the table mapping will be used for updates.

samples/core/Modeling/FluentAPI/ViewNameAndSchema.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
+
+namespace EFModeling.FluentAPI.Relational.ViewNameAndSchema
+{
+    class MyContext : DbContext
+    {
+        public DbSet<Blog> Blogs { get; set; }
+
+        protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
+        {
+            #region ViewNameAndSchema
+            modelBuilder.Entity<Blog>()
+                .ToView("blogsView", schema: "blogging");
+            #endregion
+        }
+    }
+
+    public class Blog
+    {
+        public int BlogId { get; set; }
+        public string Url { get; set; }
+    }
+}