Why Does Await Not Appear to Prevent Second Operation on EF Context

Question

Within an ASP.NET MVC Application I\'m recieving the following error message for one of my controller methods that uses my Entity Framework context.

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Answer 1

Avoid lazy loading when using async with Entity Framework. Instead, either load the data you need first, or use Include()'s to ensure the data you need is loaded with the query.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/magazine/dn802603.aspx

Current State of Async Support

... Async support was added to Entity Framework (in the EntityFramework NuGet package) in version 6. You do have to be careful to avoid lazy loading when working asynchronously, though, because lazy loading is always performed synchronously. ...

(Emphasis mine)

Also:

https://entityframework.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Task-based%20Asynchronous%20Pattern%20support%20in%20EF.#ThreadSafety