Entity Framework - Eager loading related entities

Question

I\'m using Entity Framework 4 with MVC and need to ensure any referenced entities I want to use in my view have been loaded before the controller method returns, otherwise the v

Answer 1

I think this is a job for your repository which should in your case expose methods like GetFullSeller (all properties loaded by Include) and GetSeller (only base entity).

Edit:

There are several ways how to load navigation properties in EF v4.

• Eager loading (using Include)
• Lazy loading
• Explicit loading by ObjectContext.LoadProperty (doesn't work for POCO)

There is no automatic loading.