VS2013 Debugger + Entity Framework: “runtime has refused to evaluate the expression”, crashes

Question

I\'m experiencing a lot of problems with Entity Framework 6.0.1 in the VS2013 Ultimate debugger when debugging into unit tests against code that\'s hitting a live SQL Server

Answer 1

There may be a problem regarding debugging if there are any entity with Virtual entities inside. We had this problem when trying to debug at entities inside Ef scope. Entity Framework then try to catch the state of the virtial entities.

We got a better result while viewing the entities outside db scope. This way EF is not involved while watching the entities values.