Entity Framework Feature Suggestions

Lazy Loading at Property/Column Level

At time we may require to lazy load at column level. For e.g. if we have a LOB column which could be huge, we may not want to load that upfront when the table is lazy loaded. Agreed that we can workaroudn this problem, but a straight forward way would be good to have

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    JK (Jayakhanna P)JK (Jayakhanna P) shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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      • Tommy LongTommy Long commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        I'm so bored of ending up back on this website...

        Somebody once told me EF4 was alike L2S's bigger brother. For my lunch break today I intend to buy a large fish, find that idiots, and slap them across the face with it.

        This is yet another hurdle when attempting to migrate from L2S to EF4. Both teams work for the same company, right? All these lovely features supposedly made available by EF4 and I fear I'll never get to use them because the cost of migration for existing projects in terms of time, GREATLY exceeds the cost of purchasing a third party ORM.

        Please, EF4 team, one hand giveth, the other taketh away... *stop disappointing*.

      • FIL_ALEXFIL_ALEX commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Oh, how much time we spent to solve this! Table separating, designing, coding... For some systems (f.e. Document Flow, CMS...) it is a very reqiured feature.

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