LINQ To Entities and Lazy Loading

Question

In a controversial blog post today, Hackification pontificates on what appears to be a bug in the new LINQ To Entities framework:

Suppose I search fo

Answer 1

I don't know much about ORMs, but as a user of LinqToSql and LinqToEntities I would hope that when you try to query Orders for Alice it does the extra query for you when you make the linq query (as opposed to not querying anything or querying everything for every row).

It seems natural to expect

from o in alice.Orders where o.Item == "Item_Name" select o

to work given that's one of the reasons people use ORM's in the first place (to simplify data access).

The more I read about LinqToEntities the more I think LinqToSql fulfills most developers needs adequately. I usually just need a one-to-one mappingn of tables.