Entity Framework 4 and caching of query results

Question

Say I have a table or 2 that contains data that will never or rarely change, is there any point of trying to cache those data? Or will the EF context cache that data for me

Answer 1

you'll have to roll your own for any ef4 linq queries, as they are always resolved to sql, and thus will always hit the db. a simple cache for your couple tables probably wouldn't be hard to write.

if you're going to be querying by id though, you can use the ObjectContext.GetObjectByKey method, and it will look in the object cache before querying the db.