Entity Framework: Eager Loading Navigation Properties of Inherited Entities

Question

I am trying to eager load my entire graph and it looks like the following:

public class WorkoutProgram
{
    public Schedule Schedule { get; set; }
}

public class Schedule
{
    public ICollection<DayBase> Days { get; set; }
}

public abstract class DayBase
{
}

public class TrainingDay : DayBase
{
    public ICollection<Exercise> Exercises { get; set; }
}

context.WorkoutPrograms.Include("Schedule.Days.Exercises");

Obviously, not all Schedule.Days are TrainingDays, so I get a runtime error because of the path including Exercises.

Am I missing a configuration here, or do I need to resort to lazy loading (which I hope not).

Thanks

Answer 1

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