Lazy Loading vs Eager Loading

Question

Lazy loading in Entity Framework is the default phenomenon that happens for loading and accessing the related entities. However, eager loading is referred to the practice of

Answer 1

Consider the below situation

public class Person{
    public String Name{get; set;}
    public String Email {get; set;}
    public virtual Employer employer {get; set;}
}

public List GetPerson(){
    using(EF.DbEntities db = new EF.DbEntities()){
       return db.Person.ToList();
    }
}

Now after this method is called, you cannot lazy load the Employer entity anymore. Why? because the db object is disposed. So you have to do Person.Include(x=> x.employer) to force that to be loaded.