Disable Lazy Loading for Navigation Properties on Entities in EF 5

Question

Hello all,
Can we disable Lazy Loading for Navigation properties on any entity?
If yes, how we can achieve the same.
Thanks,
Naresh

Answer 1

Hi Naresh;
If you are using code first you can do the following to turn off Lazy loading for a given navigation property. For example
lets say we have a Customers table and a Orders table and a Customer can have 1 to many Orders the following POCO class has a ICollection that is mark as virtual, This causes Lazy loading to happen when a property of order is accessed.
// Lazy Loading Enabled
public class Customers
public int Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection<Order> Orders { get; set; }
To turn off Lazy loading remove the virtual key word as follows:
// Lazy Loading Is Disabled
public class Customers
public int Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public ICollection<Order> Orders { get; set; }
To turn of Lazy Loading for all entities using Code First you can do the following in the constructor of the DbContext.
public class MyContext : DbContext
public MyContext()
this.Configuration.LazyLoadingEnabled = false;
If the above does not meet your needs please tell us what version of the Entity Framework, which context type you are using, for example ObjectContext or DbContext, and which modeling you are using such as Code First, Model First or Database First.
Fernando (MCSD)
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