Private constructor on POCO entity preventing lazy loading

Question

I have a POCO entity on which I have defined a custom constructor. I have also implemented the default constructor so that Entity Framework can successfully hydrate the obje

Answer 1

If you define private constructor you violate requirements for creating POCO proxy responsible for lazy loading:

A custom data class must have a public or protected constructor that does not have parameters.

So the best option for you is using protected constructor or not using lazy loading.