Normalized class design and code first

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Published on 2013-10-28T03:50:18Z Indexed on 2013/10/28 3:53 UTC
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There are the following two classes.

public class Employee
{
    int EmployeeId { get; set; }
    public string FirstName { get; set; }
    public string LastName { get; set; }
    public string Street { get; set; }
    public string Street2 { get; set; }
    public string City { get; set; }
    public string State { get; set; }
    public string Zip { get; set; }
}

public class Company
{
    int CompanyId { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Street { get; set; }
    public string Street2 { get; set; }
    public string City { get; set; }
    public string State { get; set; }
    public string Zip { get; set; }
}

In a DDD seminar, the speaker said the better design should be,

class PersonName 
{
    public string FirstName { get; set; }
    public string LastName { get; set; }
}

class Address
{
    public string Street { get; set; }
    public string Street2 { get; set; }
    public string City { get; set; }
    public string State { get; set; }
    public string Zip { get; set; }
}

public class Employee
{
    int EmployeeId { get; set; }
    public PersonName Name { get; set; }

    [ForeignKey("EmployerAddress")]
    public int EmployerAddressId { get; set; }
    public virtual Address EmployerAddress { get; set; }
}

public class Company
{
    int CompanyId { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    [ForeignKey("CompanyAddress")]
    public int CompanyAddressId { get; set; }
    public virtual Address CompanyAddress { get; set; }
}

Is it the optimized design? How the code first generate the PersonName table and link it to Employee?

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