Get underlying entity object from entity framework proxy

Question

I have an entity by getting it from DbEntityEntry.Entity. This returns the Entity Framework proxy for the entity.

How do I access the underlying object

Answer 1

If you end up needing to do this from a project that does not have access to EF or the DBContext, and you don't know if the type you are referencing is a proxy you can do something like this:

    public Type GetType
    {
        get
        {
            var thisType = _baseObject.GetType();

            if (thisType.Namespace == "System.Data.Entity.DynamicProxies")
                return thisType.BaseType;

            return thisType;
        }
    }