How to force Entity Framework to always get updated data from the database?

Question

I am using EntityFramework.Extended library to perform batch updates. The only problem is EF does not keep track of the batch updates performed by the library. So when I que

Answer 1

I declared the entity variable, without assignment, as part of the class. This allowed me to dispose of an instance without losing the variable for reference by other methods. I just came across this so it doesn't have alot of runtime under it's belt, but so far it seems to be working fine.

public partial class frmMyForm
{
    private My_Entities entity;

    public frmMyForm()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    private void SomeControl_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        db.SaveChanges();
        db.Dispose();
        entity = new My_Entities();
        //more code using entity ...
}